Two students murdered at Nigerian boarding school because they were gay

The brutal death of two students at a boarding school in Nigeria’s Kano State on July 14 has sparked outrage among local and regional activists.

Dailytrust, a local newspaper, said a handful of students attacked four fellow students they accused of being gay. The incident reportedly happened around midnight at the Government Secondary School Bichi.

The newspaper further reported two of the students who were attacked — Hamza Idris-Tofawa and Umar Yusuf-Dungurawa — died and two others are currently fighting for their lives in the hospital.

Authorities have arrested 11 students. The Kano State government has advised students not to attack their fellow classmates who they suspect are gay, and promised to thoroughly investigate the incident.

A month later, however, Kano State’s government h