Gunmen attack police station in Nigeria’s Kano city

According to Nigerian police officials, at least two civilians have died in an overnight attack on a police post in the northern Nigerian city of Kano.

In the meantime residents said, gunmen pened fire on a police station in Nigeria’s flashpoint city of Kano at dawn Monday, setting off a gun battle with police.

The gunmen are suspected to be Islamist militants from Boko Haram, which recently carried out multiple bomb attacks in Kano, killing 185 people.

Kano state and its capital city of 10 million people have been under siege by gunmen from Boko Haram, which wants to impose sharia law across Nigeria.

Boko Haram, a movement loosely modeled on the Afghan Taliban whose name translates as “Western education is sinful”, has been behind almost daily killings in its home base in the largely Muslim northeast. Its violence has spread west into other parts of the north and the capital Abuja since last year.

from KHAAMA

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