NIGERIA: Police seize explosives belonging to suspected Islamist sect and arrest 14 people after a deadly shootout
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NIGERIA: Police seize explosives belonging to suspected Islamist sect and arrest 14 people after a deadly shootout
- Title: NIGERIA: Police seize explosives belonging to suspected Islamist sect and arrest 14 people after a deadly shootout
- Date: 21st December 2011
- Summary: KANO, NIGERIA (DECEMBER 18, 2011) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) SECURITY PERSONNEL INSPECTING SUSPECTED SUICIDE BOMBER'S CAR LOADED WITH EXPLOSIVES PLASTIC CONTAINER AND BATTERY IN THE BACK SEAT OF THE CAR BOOT OF THE CAR FILLED WITH EXPLOSIVES POLICE SHOWING MEDIA SOME OF THE RECOVERED EXPLOSIVES VARIOUS OF THREE SUSPECTS BEING HELD BY POLICE MORE OF SUICIDE BOMBER'S CAR
- Embargoed: 5th January 2012 12:00
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- Location: Nigeria, Nigeria
- Country: Nigeria
- Topics: Crime
- Reuters ID: LVA49WGY46RLJD66O2VQ29POB476
- Story Text: Nigerian police have arrested 14 suspected members of an Islamist sect and seized explosives after a gun battle on Saturday (December 17) left four militants and three policemen dead in the northern city of Kano, the police commissioner said.
At the house of a suspected militant where the shootout occurred, police found 50 litres of petrol and five gas canisters, some AK-47s, two pump-action shot guns and 1,125 rounds of ammunition.
Another suspect's house was found to contain detonators, wires, homemade bomb casings and large quantities of explosives, including gun powder and ammonium nitrate.
Militant group Boko Haram is waging a low level insurgency, which used to be largely confined to Nigeria's remote northeast Borno state, but this year has increasingly plagued other parts of the north and the capital, Abuja Boko Haram have been blamed for scores of shootings and bombings in the north, including a spate of attacks last week in Kano and their heartland of Maiduguri, capital of Borno state.
Nigerian security forces have been unable to contain the growing threat of Islamist militants in the north, who this year struck the capital twice, including a suicide car bomb against the U.N. headquarters that killed 26 people. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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