Bauchi State police headquarters burnt by members of the Boko Haram
Reuters
Gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect, killed three people on Sunday, including a policemen and a soldier, when they bombed police buildings and a bank in Azare in Bauchi State.
The attackers fired assault rifles and threw explosives in the attack early on Sunday on two police stations.
"They came in a large convoy," resident Usman Musa told AFP, adding that the assailants hung a black banner at the entrance of the police station reading "Allahu Akbar" (God Is Great).
Musa said he saw the bodies of a soldier, a policeman and a police employee at a medical centre, where another two policemen were being treated for gunshot wounds.
The assailants also bombed and robbed two banks in the town, residents said.
"One policeman, one soldier, one civilian and three suspected attackers were killed," Ikechukwu Aduba, Bauchi Police Commissioner, told Reuters.
Witnesses said a bank was looted and the two police buildings were set ablaze.
Boko Haram, whose name translates at "Western education is forbidden" in the local Hausa language, has been blamed for dozens of attacks in north-eastern states this year, most of which are aimed at figures in authority.
The sect carried out a prison raid last year in Bauchi, freeing around 700 inmates.
Boko Haram also claimed responsibility for two bombings in the capital Abuja this year, the latest a suicide attack on United Nations headquarters in August, which killed 24 people.
Reuters
Gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect, killed three people on Sunday, including a policemen and a soldier, when they bombed police buildings and a bank in Azare in Bauchi State.
The attackers fired assault rifles and threw explosives in the attack early on Sunday on two police stations.
"They came in a large convoy," resident Usman Musa told AFP, adding that the assailants hung a black banner at the entrance of the police station reading "Allahu Akbar" (God Is Great).
Musa said he saw the bodies of a soldier, a policeman and a police employee at a medical centre, where another two policemen were being treated for gunshot wounds.
The assailants also bombed and robbed two banks in the town, residents said.
"One policeman, one soldier, one civilian and three suspected attackers were killed," Ikechukwu Aduba, Bauchi Police Commissioner, told Reuters.
Witnesses said a bank was looted and the two police buildings were set ablaze.
Boko Haram, whose name translates at "Western education is forbidden" in the local Hausa language, has been blamed for dozens of attacks in north-eastern states this year, most of which are aimed at figures in authority.
The sect carried out a prison raid last year in Bauchi, freeing around 700 inmates.
Boko Haram also claimed responsibility for two bombings in the capital Abuja this year, the latest a suicide attack on United Nations headquarters in August, which killed 24 people.
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