Gunmen Attack And Kill 40 Students At College Of Agriculture Yobe.

Gunmen have  killed at least 40 people today in an attack on  College of Agriculture Yobe, witnesses say,
Islamist sect Boko Haram has intensified attacks on civilian targets in recent weeks in reaction to a military offensive against its insurgency. 

The gunmen stormed the College of Agriculture in Yobe state and shot students as they slept in the early hours of this morning, state police commissioner Sanusi Rufai said.
They also set fire to classrooms, a military spokesman in Yobe state, Lazarus Eli, told Agence France-Presse.
One witness counted 40 bodies at the main hospital in Yobe state capital Damaturu, and politicians claim that victims, most of whom were young men, were taken in.

So sad......