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| Militants attack Nigerian school and 'shoot students' | |
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| Islamic militants from the Boko Haram group in north-eastern Nigeria have attacked a school and shot some students, the military has said. | |
| The BBC's Will Ross, in Nigeria, says it is not clear how many pupils were killed. But Reuters news agency says that as many as 29 died. | |
| It quotes police commissioner Sanusi Rufai as saying that the bodies of some of them "were burned to ashes". | |
| The attack took place in troubled Yobe state, the military said. | |
| Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is sinful" in the northern Hausa language, has frequently attacked schools in the past. | |
| Scores of people were killed in two attacks last week. In one incident militants destroyed a whole village and shot terrified residents as they tried to escape. | |
| The failure of the army to destroy the militants has fuelled anger in the north-east, correspondents say. | |
| The latest offensive ordered by President Goodluck Jonathan in May has been blamed for triggering reprisals by militants against civilians. | |
| Addressing a news conference on Monday, the president defended the army's record, saying it had achieved some successes against Boko Haram. | |
| He said that Nigeria was working with Cameroon to stop the militants from staging attacks in Nigeria and then escaping over the border. |