MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Assailants shot or stabbed to death at least 25 people in the second attack near colleges in Nigeria’s troubled northeast in the last few days, officials said Tuesday.
Authorities believe students may have been behind the attacks in Mubi, but that town and the surrounding region have suffered from killings by a radical Islamist sect.
The latest attack occurred between 10 p.m. Monday and 3 a.m. Tuesday when assailants invaded student accommodations outside the campus of the Federal Polytechnic Mubi college, said one of its students, Danjuma Aiso.
Twenty-seven students were killed, forcing the school to close Tuesday, according to Students Affairs officer Mohammed Baba Karewa. However, Adamawa state police spokesman Ibrahim Muhammad said that 25 people had been killed and that they were all men.