Baku-APA. Ten people have been killed in Nigeria after unidentified assailants sprayed bullets from a moving van, Nigeria's military said, APA reports quoting Press TV.
On Tuesday, Captian Salisu Mustapha, the spokesman for a special military and police force, said at the time of the attack, the gunmen were driving a car along a road that leads to the airport in Plateau state in central Nigeria on Monday night, the Associated Press reported.
Clashes between Christians and Muslims have led to hundreds of deaths in the recent years. Both sides blame the security forces for the deaths.
"You can get camouflage clothes from the market and criminals have worn uniforms in the past to carry out their attacks," Mustapha said, adding, "Nothing connects the army with these killings."
The army and the police have not stated whether they suspected any particular group or any claim of responsibility.
Eight of the dead were killed on the spot and two others died in hospital.
According to Human Rights Watch, at least 1,000 people were killed in communal clashes in Nigeria in 2010.
On Monday, a "large number" of gunmen attacked a major police station in the Nigerian capital Abuja, killing two officers and enabling five detainees to escape.
The attack on the Special Anti-Robbery Squad headquarters occurred around 2 a.m. (0300 GMT), with police claiming to have repelled the assailants and arrested two of them.
Human rights groups report that violent actions by Boko Haram since mid-2009 have claimed about 1,500 lives, including over 760 this year alone.
The extremist group has claimed responsibility for a number of deadly gun and bomb attacks in various parts of Nigeria since 2009.
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