Gunmen kill 28 in attack on northeast Nigeria boarding school
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, July 6 (Reuters) - 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 attackers set fire to buildings and shot pupils as they tried to flee, the source told Reuters. Several of the students were being treated for burns, he added.
(Reporting by Lanre Ola; Writing by Tim Cocks; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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