Abuja: At least four people including three militants and a policeman was killed when gunmen bombed a police station in Nigeria while the gunmen also freed 14 inmates, media reported on Thursday.
According to reports Gunmen stormed the station in Damagun in Yobe state late Thursday, leaving it burnt and an officer wounded. A house being used as a military post was also burnt, while 14 inmates were freed from a prison at another location in town.
Yobe state police spokesman Gbadegesin Toyin said three of the attackers and a police officer were killed, while two other policemen were injured.
Toyin said the police station, located in northeastern Nigeria, was completely burnt in the attack.
“The gunmen also burnt down a house used as a military post and an adjoining building housing some Korean doctors employed by the Yobe state government,” he said.
A purported spokesman for Boko Haram told reporters in a conference call that the group was responsible for the attack.
The spokesman, who goes by the name Abul Qaqa and who has claimed to speak on behalf of the group a number of times in the past, said they launched the attack to free one of their members who had been arrested in the town.
“We were responsible for last night’s attacks in Damagun in which we burnt down the police station and a military lodge and also broke into the prison and freed inmates,” he said.
“We carried out the attacks in order to free one of our members arrested in the town following a tip-off and detained in police custody. We succeeded in our mission.”
It is to be mentioned here that Boko Haram which means ‘Western education is prohibited’ had carried out deadly attacks at police stations and government offices in Nigeria as the organization wants to impose ‘sharia’ in the country.
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