Gunmen suspected of being members of a radical Islamist sect have reportedly killed over a dozen people - including a 6-year-old girl - in recent attacks in Nigeria's restive northeast, authorities said Monday.In the northeastern city of Potiskum, gunnies opened fire on a policeman and his family, killing the policeman's six-year-old daughter, Toyin Gbadegeshin, Yobe a State police front man said.
Early Monday, gunnies killed three people when they attacked a cop shoppe, a church and a bank in the border town of Dikwa in the northeast.
Joint Security Task Force front man Lt. Col. Sagir Musa said a local politician, a police officer and civilian and three gunnies were killed in early Monday's attack.
Musa blamed the attack on members of the Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or
Big Louie...
sect.
Gbadegeshin, also blamed Boko Haram, a group waging an increasingly bloody fight with security agencies and the public. More than 380 people have been killed in violence blamed on the sect this year alone, according to an News Agency that Dare Not be Named count.
The attacks follow a Sunday suicide kaboom in the city of Kaduna that killed at least 38 people in a massive blast that rattled a city at the centre of religious, ethnic and political violence in the nation.
While no one immediately grabbed credit for the attack, suspicion immediately fell on Boko Haram, and some fear the attack could further inflame tensions around Kaduna, a region on the dividing line between Nigeria's largely Christian south and Mohammedan north.