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Africa Subsaharan
Gunmen Kill Three in Nigeria's Northeast
2012-11-04
[An Nahar] Gunmen have killed three people including a fire service chief in Nigeria's restive northeastern state of Borno in the latest such attack blamed on the Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
Islamists, police and residents said Saturday.

The attack on the Damboa local government office, around 90 kilometers south of the volatile city of Maiduguri, happened late Friday, they said.

"A group of gunnies set fire to the Gamboa local government secretariat and a nearby 20-unit housing estate built by the state government," a police officer who did not want to be named, told Agence La Belle France Presse.

He said as the fire service mobilised to extinguish the fire gunnies appeared from nowhere and opened fire on them.

"The head of the fire service, Hassan Maina, was killed along with two security guards manning the secretariat," he said.

"It is not clear who was behind the attack. But from all indications, it was the handiwork of Boko Haram," he said.

Resident Tijjani Bulama said the gunnies came to the local government office in four unmarked vehicles, killing Maina and another official.

Nigerian security agents and government officials have been a regular target of attacks by Boko Haram myrmidons.
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