An attack on a student dormitory in Nigeria leaves 26 dead

At least 26 students were killed Tuesday during an attack on a student dormitory in the town of Mubi in northeastern Nigeria, as reported by a spokesman for the Federal Polytechnic Mubi. "The victims knew their assailants," said police spokesman Mohammed Ibrahim to France Presse, explaining that students were called one by one before being killed. Some of them were beheaded.A witness was quoted by the BBC, said that the shooting may have produced more than 40 victims, but there is still no official figure. The attack came days after a major operation against the Islamist sect Boko Haram , although it is unclear that is of his own.The BBC correspondent in Nigeria, Will Ross, said that the telephone wires had been cut by militants in recent days, so communication was very complicated Mubi. Another witness who declined to be named, said a group of armed men entered the dorm and asked the students to form a line and say their names. Attackers gunned down and stabbed some others, and left their bodies in front of the building. Some of the dead were Muslims and other Christians . "Everyone is afraid," he said. He added that many students were leaving the city (about 250,000 inhabitants) with branches tied to their cars, a symbol of neutrality in Nigeria. Authorities have imposed an indefinite curfew and ordered people to stay home. The university has been closed. Mubi is in Adamawa state and has a population divided between Muslim and Christian communities. It has a border with the state of Borno, where the Islamist sect Boko Haram has some ownership since 2009, who took control of the state capital, Maiduguri. The Islamist sect, which aims to impose sharia in Nigeria, has killed more than 1,000 people in several attacks in northern and central China this year alone .