Dozens of students killed in Nigerian school

February 25, 2014 at 11:45a.m.

DAMATURU, Nigeria (AP) — Suspected Islamic militants killed dozens of students in a pre-dawn attack today on a northeast Nigerian college, survivors said, setting ablaze a locked hostel and shooting and slitting the throats of those who escaped through windows. Some were burned alive. Adamu Garba said he and other teachers who ran away through the bush estimate 40 students died in the assault that began around 2 a.m. today at the Federal Government College at Buni Yadi. It is a co-ed school about 70 kilometers (45 miles) south of Damaturu, the capital of Yobe state, and difficult to communicate with because extremists last year destroyed the cell phone tower there.