Borno school attack disrupts national examinations amid rising northern insecurity - Businessday NG

…two teachers killed, NECO candidates abducted

Suspected Boko Haram insurgents have killed two teachers and abducted an unspecified number of students during national examinations in the Askira/Uba local government area of Borno State.

​The attackers stormed Lassa Day Secondary School in Uba at about 9am, arriving in a convoy of utility vehicles and motorcycles. Witnesses stated that the insurgents, dressed in counterfeit military and forest guard uniforms, bypassed a nearby military checkpoint unopposed before shooting sporadically for nearly an hour.

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