The
Military Joint Task Force in Yobe State has confirmed that 11 people
were killed in separate attacks as suspected members of the Boko Haram
sect invaded the Government Secondary School and a military checkpoint
in Damaturu, the state capital.
The military spokesman in the state,
Lieutenant Eli Lazarus, in a statement on Monday, explained that two
teachers, seven students and two insurgents were killed during the
attacks.
Apart from the 11 killed, three
soldiers, according to the statement, were critically injured in the
clash that lasted for over five hours.
The army spokesmen said three of the
suspected Boko Haram members were caught alive and were currently in the
custody of the JTF.
The Medical Officer of the Damaturu
Specialist Hospital, Salem Umar, confirmed that 11 corpses were brought
to the hospital and gave the breakdown as seven students of the GSS
Damaturu, two teachers of the school and two members of the suspected
Boko Haram members.
He added that six students also
sustained various degrees of injuries and were currently receiving
treatment at the Damaturu Specialists Hospital.
Mohammed Ya’u (SS3 student) Abdulkadir
Mohammed (SS2) and Goni Abubakar (SS1), who survived the attacks, said
in Damaturu that the suspected insurgents stormed their hostels few
minutes after 9pm on Sunday and started shooting sporadically as the
panic-striken students fled through the windows and doors of the hostel.
The insurgents, who they said were many,
also compelled some of the students to direct them to the teachers’
quarters, after which they were also killed.
Sunday’s attack interrupted the months
of ceasefire in Damaturu, a situation that made the state government to
further reduce the curfew hours to between 9pm to 6am from 6pm to 6am
daily.
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