Forty-two were killed on Saturday after gunmen, thought to be Boko Haram rebels, stormed a secondary school in Nigeria, reports AFP.
According to one of the members of staff at the local hospital, eye witnesses who had managed to escape said the gunmen rounded up staff and students into a dormitory before throwing explosives inside and setting the place on fire.
Speaking to AFP, the hospital staff member said:"We received 42 dead bodies of students and other staff of Government Secondary School (in) Mamudo last night. Some of them had gunshot wounds."