College Attack

LAGOS, Nigeria — After herding the female students into a classroom, Islamist militants from the group Boko Haram fatally burned or shot dozens of male students in an attack late Monday on a state college in northeastern Nigeria, officials said on Tuesday. The assailants, who have vilified public education as blasphemous, then burned down dormitories and other buildings and shot at anyone trying to escape. None of the women were reported to have been harmed. It was the fourth school assault attributed to the group in less than a year. At least 29 students, ages 16 to 18, died in what looked to be part of a widening campaign by the group.

Source-nytimes.com