Baku-APA. Dozens of people were reportedly killed on Thursday when gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect attacked Bajoga town in northeast Gombe State, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
The Boko Haram fighters invaded Bajoga around 5 am local time while Muslim worshippers were concluding their usual early morning prayers.
A security source told Xinhua that the gunmen entered the town in a number of Toyota Hilux vans and started shooting on arrival, forcing residents to either remain indoors or flee into the bush for their lives.
The source said the Divisional Police Headquarters and Police Area Command at Bajoga as well as one of the banks were attacked and destroyed.
A Xinhua reporter in the state said security agents engaged the Boko Haram fighters in a gun battle for about three hours before eventually repelling them.
The terrorists were said to have retracted and headed for Ashaka, another town in Funakaye local government which they equally attacked on Oct. 30 and injured a policeman in the process.
State police spokesperson Fwaje Atajiri said normalcy had been restored in the affected areas.
Boko Haram, which has proved to be a major security threat in Nigeria since 2009, seeks to enshrine the Islamic Sharia law in the constitution of Africa's most populous country.
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