Death toll in Nigeria college attack rises to 40: hospital source

A Sunday attack by Boko Haram gunmen who opened fire in a college dormitory in northeast Nigeria as the students slept has killed at least 40 people, a hospital source told AFP.

"We now have 40 bodies brought to the morgue from the attack," and all are believed to have been students of the College of Agriculture in Gujba, said the official from the Damaturu Specialist Hospital, who requested anonymity.