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Islamist militants from the Boko Haram group in north-eastern Nigeria have attacked a school and shot some students, the military has said.
Dozens of pupils are reported to have been killed. Police said that all the dead were boys and that some of the bodies “were burned to ashes”.
The attack took place in troubled Yobe state, the military said.
Residents of the town of Buni Yadi said the attackers struck at night, slitting the throats of some students.
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They said that others were shot.
Teachers at the remote Federal Government College boarding school in Buni Yadi said that as many as 40 students had been killed in the assault which began early on Tuesday morning.
AP, Reuters
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