Forbidden’ slaughters 43 boys in Nigerian school after storming the building with guns, machetes and firebombs

• Suspected militants from Al-Quaeda affiliated group burned children alive
• Teacher says they set locked hostel on fire then shot and slit the throats of children who tried to escape through the windows
• Other reports suggest attackers threw explosives, sprayed rooms with gunfire and used machetes to hack pupils to death
• Attack brings toll from Boko Haram attacks to more than 300 this month 
• A senior medical source at the Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital in Yobe's capital Damaturu said the gunmen only targeted male students and that female students were 'spared'.