The students, who were taking part in a protest against job discrimination against teachers from rural areas, were traveling in a bus when they were ambushed by police. Three of the students were killed at the scene, as well as a football player who was in another unrelated bus, a bus driver and a woman who was in a taxi.
En l'atac del 26 de setembre també van perdre la vida tres joves estudiants, un jugador de futbol –que anava amb un altre autobús també atacat—, el conductor del bus i una dona adulta que anava amb un taxi.