NIGERIA: Six people have been killed in a coordinated attack in the volatile northeast
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235378
NIGERIA: Six people have been killed in a coordinated attack in the volatile northeast
- Title: NIGERIA: Six people have been killed in a coordinated attack in the volatile northeast
- Date: 6th December 2011
- Summary: AZARE, NIGERIA (DECEMBER 4, 2011) (REUTERS) ATTACKED POLICE COMMAND CENTRE PEOPLE LOOKING AT COVERED DEAD BODY VARIOUS OF VEHICLES DESTROYED BY BOMB BLAST BOMBED BANK BUILDING SHATTERED GLASS AND SAFE IN THE BANK VARIOUS OF BOMBED BANK BUILDING CLOTHES LYING ON GROUND VARIOUS OF BOMBED INTERCONTINENTAL BANK BUILDING MOTORCYCLES DESTROYED IN THE BLAST VARIOUS OF SHATTERED WINDOWS, BOMB DAMAGE POLICEMEN GUARDING THE BOMBED BUILDINGS MOTORCYCLES IN YARD POLICE WITH ARMOURED VEHICLE
- Embargoed: 21st December 2011 12:00
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- Location: Nigeria, Nigeria
- Country: Nigeria
- Topics: Crime
- Reuters ID: LVA75UZOMGMHDY43XGVJ8Z973U7R
- Story Text: Six people were killed in northeastern Nigeria on Sunday (December 4), in a bomb attack against police buildings and banks.
Attackers fired assault rifles and threw explosives in the attack early on Sunday on two police stations in Azare, a town in northeast Bauchi state, where the Islamist sect Boko Haram was blamed for an assault earlier this year.
The area's police commissioner confirmed one policeman, one soldier, one civilian and three suspected attackers were killed in the incident.
Witnesses said two banks were looted and two police buildings set ablaze.
Boko Haram, whose name translates as "Western education is a sin" in the local Hausa language, has been blamed for dozens of attacks in northeastern states this year, most of which are aimed at figures in authority.
The sect carried out a prison raid last year in Bauchi, freeing around 700 inmates.
Boko Haram also claimed responsibility for two bombings in the capital Abuja this year, one of which was a suicide attack on United Nations headquarters in August, which killed 24 people.
Earlier this month, a US Congressional report said the Islamist group was an emerging threat to the US and its interests and urged Nigeria to deal decisively with the issue. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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