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Three killed in Nigeria police station attack

09 November 2012 19:49 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Three policemen have been shot dead in an attack on a divisional police station in Bini-Yadi, a community in Guiba local government area of Yobe State in the northeastern part of Nigeria, local military authorities said on Friday, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

Spokesperson of the military Joint Task Force (JTF) in Yobe State Lt. Lazarus Eli told reporters that the attackers stormed the police station and fired gunshots sporadically, killing the three officers.

"Some arms were also carted away by the gunmen, after the attack," he said, adding some military officials were immediately deployed to cordon-off the area.

According to Eli, the military officers have also beefed up the entire community to forestall further attacks.

A resident, Mohammed Ajiya, who witnessed the attack said the gunmen believed to be members of the Boko Haram sect stormed the police station in a car with no registration number.

"The attackers caught the policemen unaware and the corpses were brought out of the station in a pool of blood," said the eyewitness.

The Friday attack on a police station in Yobe State occurred barely a week after two police officers were killed last Sunday in an attack by gunmen who stormed a police station and vandalized a few public properties in Fika, a few kilometers away from Damaturu, capital of the northeastern state.

A police inspector and another police woman on duty were casualties of the Sunday morning attack in the police station located near a public primary school, according to local police authorities.

Although no group has claimed responsibility for the police station attack, Yobe State located in Nigeria’s northeastern region is a Boko Haram flashpoint, where the Nigerian government had declared and lifted some curfews due to wave of attacks.