July 8, 2013

Suspected Islamists kill 28 in attack on northeast Nigeria school

Suspected Islamist gunmen killed 27 students and a teacher in a boarding school in the northeast Nigerian town of Potiskum on Saturday, a police source said.The attack was the deadliest of at least three on schools since the military launched an offensive in May to try to crush Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram, whose nickname translates as "Western education is sinful" in the northern Hausa language. http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE96505F20130706?irpc=932

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