School massacre haunts Nigerian village


TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY AMINU ABUBAKAR A staff inspects on August 6, 2013 a burnt student hostel in the Government Secondary School of Mamudo in northeast Nigerian Yobe state where Boko Haram gunmen launched gun and explosives attacks on student hostels on July 6, killing 41 students and a teacher, the group's dealiest in its wave of attacks on schools as part of its armed campaign to establish an Islamic state in the West African nation. AFP PHOTO / AMINU ABUBAKAR

CLASPING his shaking hands, Malam Ahmad inspects the mangled iron beds and blown out walls of a school in Mamudo, northeastern Nigeria where dozens of students were massacred last month.

“We are still in shock from the horror of the attack,” Ahmad said as he pointed to the now deserted school, where he has taught English since it was established 13 years ago.

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