'Up To 50 Students Killed' At Nigeria College

As many as 50 people have been killed after suspected Islamist militants fired on students as they slept at a college in northeast Nigeria.

The gunmen reportedly stormed a dormitory and set fire to classrooms in the assault which happened about 1am local time in the town of Gujba in Yobe state.

Nigeria's military is blaming gunmen from the Boko Haram insurgent group for the atrocity at the College of Agriculture.

College provost Molima Idi Mato said security forces were still recovering bodies so he could not give an exact number of dead but said up to 50 had been killed.

He also said about 1,000 students had fled the scene.

A source told the Reuters news agency that 26 bodies had been brought to hospital.

The college is about 25 miles from the scene of similar school attacks around Damaturu town.

Northeast Nigeria is in a military state of emergency following an Islamic uprising by Boko Haram militants who have killed hundreds of civilians in their quest for an Islamic state.

Members of Boko Haram pictured in February

Yobe has seen a series of brutal attacks targeting students in recent months, all blamed on the group.

The worst occurred in July in the town of Mamudo, where Islamists threw explosives and sprayed gunfire into dormitories, killing at least 42 people, mostly students.

The name Boko Haram means 'Western education is forbidden' and the group has repeatedly attacked schools, universities and colleges during its four-year insurgency.

The military has described the spate of recent attacks as a sign of desperation by the Islamists, claiming they only have the capacity to hit soft targets.

An offensive launched against Boko Haram in mid-May has decimated the group and scattered their fighters across remote parts of the northeast, the defence ministry has said. 

Boko Haram has said it is fighting to create an Islamic state in Nigeria's mainly Muslim north, but the group is believed to be made up of different factions with varying aims. 

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