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October 2, 2012
Attack at Nigerian College Leaves at Least 25 Dead By ADAM
NOSSITER<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/n/adam_nossiter/index.html>

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau — Assailants killed at least 25 people at a college
in northeastern
Nigeria<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/nigeria/index.html?inline=nyt-geo>early
Tuesday, the Nigerian police said. But while the Islamist sect Boko
Haram has killed hundreds of people in the region over the last year,
suspicion this time appeared to be focusing on a campus election on
Saturday that was bitterly contested along religious and ethnic lines.

“Most of the people killed were executive leaders that were elected,” said
the police commissioner for Adamawa State, Godfrey Ameka Okeke. “We cannot
exonerate the students completely.”

Some fraternities at Nigerian colleges have been using gang violence to
exert their power, The Associated Press reported, quoting a statement by
Yushau Shuaib, the spokesman for Nigeria’s National Emergency Management
Agency, that also focused on campus politics as a possible cause of the
massacre.

A spokesman for the college, the Federal Polytechnic in Mubi, could not be
reached; communications are difficult in the area because Boko Haram has
blown up many of the region’s cellphone towers. But the group is known more
for targeting two or three members of the government, army or police at a
time.

Mubi, which is in Adamawa State, has been under an afternoon-to-morning
curfew because of the Boko Haram-related violence, and the campus killings
took place during the early morning.

The attackers “were selective in their operation,” Mr. Okeke said. “They
had the names of the victims. When they entered the compound, they asked
everybody to come out. Then they locked all the doors.

“After they asked the names, they took them aside and shot them,” Mr. Okeke
said, although many were reportedly spared.

“How should they know their names?” he added. “This is what we want to
know, whether it was related to the elections.”

There were differing accounts of the death toll. College authorities
reached by The Associated Press reported that 27 students had been shot or
stabbed to death, while a spokesman for the Adamawa state police, Ibrahim
Muhammad, told the agency that 25 had been killed — 19 polytechnic
students, three students of another college, a former soldier, a guard and
an elderly man.

There was at least one other theory about the attack. Last week the police
raided the campus looking for Boko Haram suspects — an increasingly
frequent occurrence in a part of Nigeria where the security services have
been battling the sect. The police confiscated numerous weapons and improvised
explosive devices<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/i/improvised_explosive_devices/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier>,
and they made several arrests. Local journalists suggested that the
killings could have been related to that raid.


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