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Three killed in restive Nigerian state

26 July 2012 18:21 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Three people including two policemen were killed in an overnight attack by gunmen in Nigeria’s restive northeast Borno State, police authorities said Thursday, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

State commissioner of police Bala Hassan confirmed the killing to reporters, saying no arrest has been made in connection to the killing.

According to the police chief, the killers were suspected members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect who stormed a police station and local government secretariat on Wednesday night at Gubio, a small community in the northern state.

The killings came barely 24 hours after the Nigerian troops operating in the state confirmed the killing of two Indian nationals by gunmen suspected to be members of the deadly sect on Wednesday.

Spokesperson for the Joint Task Force (JTF) Lt Col Sagir Musa disclosed murdered Indians were workers at a Gum Arabic Factory in the city.