Boko Haram kills three Islamic students in Yobe State
By Tada Jutha
Suspected Boko Haram terrorists have killed three students with the injure of one other in the early hours of Friday in Yobe state.
The killed students are of the Faudiya Islamic School (FIS), Geidam, a border community with the Niger Republic.
Confirming the incident yesterday (Friday), in Damaturu, spokesman of the Yobe State Police Command, DSP.
Dungus Abdulkarim disclosed: “The suspected terrorists attacked the Islamic school on ten motorcycles with AK-47 rifles shooting sporadically at 4: OOpm,” adding that the school belongs to the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) known as the Shiite.
“When we received a distress call, the police in Geidam rushed to the school and discovered that three students were killed with the injuring of one another,” he said.
He said that injured student was evacuated and taken to the Geidam Specialists Hospital for treatment.
Abdulkarim listed the slain students to include Muhammadu Saleh, 22 years old, Ahmed Abdulrahman, 21, and Abdullahi Adamu, 21, while the hospitalised student is Sani Haruna, 25.