Kano: At least four people were killed when suspected members of Islamist group Boko Haram used bombs and gunfire to attack a police station and rob a bank in northeastern Nigeria, media reported on Saturday.
According to reports the assailants were in two groups and attacked the two locations nearly simultaneously in the town of Askira Uba, south of the city of Maiduguri, which has been Boko Haram’s base.
The report stated regarding a resident who said that the gunmen overwhelmed the police, who engaged the attackers in a shootout and were forced to withdraw from the station while police could not be reached for comment.
Boko Haram has carried out scores of such attacks, mainly in the north of Africa’s most populous nation, as part of its increasingly deadly insurgency.
A bid to hold indirect talks between Boko Haram and the government in recent weeks to end the violence appears to have collapsed.
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