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| Gunmen Kill 5 in Nigeria's Troubled North |
| 2012-06-10 |
| [An Nahar] Gunmen in Nigeria's troubled north killed two coppers and a customs officer, while two civilians maimed in the separate attacks died later, witnesses said Saturday. In the region's largest city Kano, two gunnies on Saturday rubbed out an official of the secret police, Aminu Isa, and fled, a resident told Agence La Belle France Presse. Isa's companion was shot in both legs and later died in the hospital, said the witness, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... Two gunnies riding on a cycle of violence also rubbed out a customs superintendent, Abubakar Muhammad, outside his house in Tinshama district of Kano on Saturday, his neighbors told AFP. Muhammad, on a weekend visit to Kano from Lagos, was shot three times in the head by his attackers who expeditiously departed at a goodly pace immediately, they said. Late Friday, gunnies also rubbed out a police constable outside his house in Boriya district on the outskirts of Potiskum, a major city in northeastern Yobe state, a neighbor told AFP. "A nearby drug vendor was also hit and injured by the attackers' bullet," the neighbor said, adding that the vendor died later. |
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