College claims Islamic militants kill 50 students in Nigeria

Suspected Islamic militants gunned down students as they slept and killed as many as 50 in an early-morning attack in north-east Nigeria, a college provost said.

Molima Idi Mato, of the Yobe state College of Agriculture, told The Associated Press that the gunmen also torched classrooms in the attack at about 1am tthis morning in rural Gujba.