adminA senior police official told Al Jazeera that unknown gunmen went into campus hostels used by students at Federal Polytechnic Mubi, and killed at least 25 people.
Local officials confirmed that the attack had taken place. Yushau Shuaib, a National Emergency Management Agency spokesperson, said that “a number of people” had died.
National Emergency Management Agency spokesman Yushua Shuaib confirmed the attack to Reuters news agency but had no details on casualties.
He said it was not clear whether the attack was the work of Boko Haram, or the result of a dispute between rival political groups at the university.
Officials also pointed out, however, that the school had recently held a students’ election.
Shuaib said initial reports indicated one of the victims was a candidate in the poll.
Al Jazeera’s Yvonne Ndege, reporting from Abuja, said: “We have heard it could be some kind of student politics which has motivated the attacks, but we are also getting conflicting messages that some students had their names called before the gunmen.”
The killings come days after a major operation against members of the Boko Haram group in the town.
A recent raid on Mubi by the military had uncovered a large cache of weapons and ammunition, with many suspects rounded up.
Mubi is in Adamawa state, which has a mixed Muslim and Christian population and borders Borno state, where Boko Haram came to prominence in 2009, staging an uprising in the state capital, Maiduguri.
Boko Haram has not yet commented on the Mubi attacks.
Boko Haram is fighting against Western influence in Nigeria and wants to form an Islamic state. This year alone around 1 000 have been killed in attacks in northern and central Nigeria. — Al Jazeera.
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