Not fewer than three students have been killed when suspected Boko Haram terrorists attacked the Faudiya School in Gaidam local government area of Yobe State in the wee hours of Friday.
A source confirmed to LEADERSHIP that the hoodlums attacked the Shi’ite school belonging to the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), killing 3 of the students and inflicted injuries on another.
Confirming the incident, IMN spokesperson in Gaidam local government area, Mallam Mahadi Ibrahim, said the assailants launched attack on the school and burnt parts of it, killing 3 students and injuring one other.
Ibrahim said the suspected gunmen invaded the Fuadiyya Islamic school, shooting sporadically into the air to announce their arrival before killing the students.
He added that, “As I’m speaking to you now, all we know is that they killed three students. One person who tried to escape during the attack was injured and he has been hospitalised.”
Another resident corroborated the account when he told our correspondent that the attackers who stormed the Hausari Quarter area of Gaidam killed three students of the Islamiyya school at about 3:40am midnight of Friday.
He said some of the students were in their sleep when they were brought outside forcefully before three of them were shot dead.
Spokesman of the Yobe State Police Command, DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, also confirmed the killing of the three Shi’ite students in the attack.
The students who lost their lives were identified as 22-year-old Muhammadu Saleh, Ahmed Abdulrahm and Abdullahi Adamu, both 21 years old, while a 25-year-old Sani Haruna was injured in the attack and is currently receiving treatment at an hospital.
LEADERSHIP learnt that the town has been thrown into sadness and fear as the residents are terrified over the unfortunate incident.