Fresh Attacks As Boko Haram Islamists Kill 9 Students In Northeast Nigeria
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Suspected Boko Haram Militants opened fire on students taking exams at a school in the troubled northeast, killing at least nine of them, witnesses said Tuesday.
The attack on Monday at a private school in Maiduguri was the second on a school in recent days.
On Sunday, 13 people, including high school students and teachers, were killed during a five-hour shootout when extremists attacked a boarding school in Damaturu, the capital of Yobe State, the military said.
In that attack, the militants identified themselves as members of the radical sect Boko Haram, whose name translates as “Western education is forbidden.”The fighting in the northeast has also raised fears of a food shortage.
Government officials warned Tuesday that Islamic militants had driven 19,000 rice farmers from their land in northeast Nigeria, while a military crackdown was preventing thousands more from working their fields.
“We anticipate general hunger this year because all roads linking the cities to the farming hinterlands have been closed down,” said Usman Zannah, the agriculture commissioner for Borno State.
On Sunday, 13 people, including high school students and teachers, were killed during a five-hour shootout when extremists attacked a boarding school in Damaturu, the capital of Yobe State, the military said.
In that attack, the militants identified themselves as members of the radical sect Boko Haram, whose name translates as “Western education is forbidden.”The fighting in the northeast has also raised fears of a food shortage.
Government officials warned Tuesday that Islamic militants had driven 19,000 rice farmers from their land in northeast Nigeria, while a military crackdown was preventing thousands more from working their fields.
“We anticipate general hunger this year because all roads linking the cities to the farming hinterlands have been closed down,” said Usman Zannah, the agriculture commissioner for Borno State.
