2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2025 On 6 July 2013, Boko Haram insurgents attacked the Government Secondary School in the village of Mamudo in Yobe State, Nigeria and killed at least 42 people.
[1] Boko Haram was founded in 2002 to seek the establishment of an Islamic state and fight against the Westernization of Nigeria, which the group says is the root cause of criminal behaviour in that country.
[1] The resulting crackdown has led to the capture or killing of hundreds of Boko Haram members, with the remainder retreating to mountainous areas from which they increasingly targeted civilians.
[3] In June 2013, Nigerian soldiers beat students at a Koran-based school, angering Boko Haram members.
[1] Before dawn on 6 July 2013, gunmen attacked a secondary school in Mamudo, Yobe State, northeastern Nigeria, where they killed at least 42 people.
[2] On 7 July, Yobe State governor Ibrahim Gaidam called the attackers cold-blooded murderers and "devoid of any shred of humanity".