(Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants have stormed a college in northeastern Nigeria and shot dead around 40 male students, some of them while they slept early on Sunday, witnesses said.
The gunmen, thought to be members of al-Qaeda-linked Islamist sect Boko Haram, attacked one hostel, took some students outside before killing them and shot others trying to flee, people at the scene said.
The Boko Haram, which wants to establish an Islamic state in northern Nigeria, has intensified
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