Some parents wailing on seeing the charred remains of their loved ones, others were searching for their children, who may have died in the Boko Haram’s Tuesday attack on the hostels of the Federal Government College, Boni Yadi, Yobe State, in which scores of pupils were reportedly killed.
At the Gen. Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital in Damaturu, the state capital where the injured were taken, officials were busy attending to distraught parents searching for their wards.
Only three of the 11 injured were being treated at the hospital. The others had been taken away by their parents.
Parents/Teachers’ Association Chairman Mohammed Kati Machina, an engineer, recounted the grim, but unavoidable task of burying the dead.
He said: “We buried two of the eight burnt students at Buni Yadi because they were so badly burnt. Ten bodies were brought to Damaturu, with six burnt beyond recognition.”
Machina,
A hospital source, who pleaded not to be named, said some parents came in search of their kids but could not find them.
He said:
“The situation is so pathetic. Some of the parents were here earlier today in search of their missing children but could not find them. Maybe some of them are among those burnt beyond recognition. Nobody can tell for now”.
Machina said:
Senate President David Mark, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary Paul Mumeh in Abuja, lamented that the insurgents have no justification to kill students who neither offended them nor committed any crime, saying that “even in war situations, children and women are always spared”.
The attack, which claimed lives of innocent school children on Tuesday morning, was condemned both by international bodies and Nigerian authorities.
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