Gunmen attack secondary school staff quarters, kill 5-year-old

Police in Bauchi State said suspected gunmen set ablaze some houses in the staff quarters of Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS), Yana, killing a five-year old girl on Sunday.
The police spokesperson in the state, DSP Haruna Mohammed, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Bauchi that the gunmen also burnt a telecommunication mast in the town.
He said they stole a private car belonging to the principal of the school, assuring the public that other students in the school were safe.

"Unknown gunmen attacked the staff quarters of GGSS Yana, Shira Local Government Area of the state, around 2.30 a.m. on Sunday.

"They set the school bus ablaze; and in the process, a five-year-old girl was killed in the fire while they destroyed the vault of a bank,'' he said.


According to Mohammed, a combined team of security forces are on the trail of the attackers.
NAN recalls that on April 17, the police said a team of security forces foiled an attack by some unknown gunmen on Misau town, Misau Local Government Area of the state.


On April 15 also, the police confirmed that some gunmen snatched two vehicles, marked 206 UN and 139 UN in Soro, Ganjuwa Local Government Area of the state, belonging to the United Nations.


Mohammed said some suspected armed robbers had recently snatched a vehicle belonging to the Bauchi State Television Authority, marked 04C-04 BA. (NAN

Unidentified gunmen attacked the Government Girls Secondary School in Yana, Bauchi State yesterday, where they set fire to staff homes and seized the principal's car.

The incident came a week after a similar attack at a girls' secondary school in Chibok, Borno State, in which more than 100 female students were abducted by suspected Boko Haram militants.

In the pre-dawn raid on Yana, the gunmen did not take any of the 195 final-year students who were around in the school for their senior school-leaving certificate examinations.

But the attackers went on the rampage in the school premises and elsewhere in Yana, which is the headquarters of Shira Local Government Area.

The attackers destroyed a bank building, part of the police barracks, a conference hall and 15 vehicles at the local government secretariat, and several cell-phone towers.

A five-year-old boy was also burnt to death in the blaze at the police barracks, residents and authorities said.

The incident was the second in a week in Yana, coming just six days after the attack at Mothercat construction company site where gunmen seized some dynamite.