at the police headquarters in Nigeria's restive city of Maiduguri Friday killed at least two coppers and maimed six other people, authorities and witnesses said.It was the latest violence to hit the tense northeastern city that has been at the center of Islamist group 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...
's insurgency, which has killed more than 1,000 people since mid-2009.
"A jacket wallah tried to force his way into the police headquarters... However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
he rammed the car into sand-filled drums outside headquarters and his car went
kaboom!," a police source said.
"We have some casualties, but we're trying to sort out the extent of fatalities and the injured."
A witness reported seeing the bodies of two coppers.
Another witness said he saw five maimed coppers and what appeared to be an injured pregnant woman being taken away to hospital.
A hospital source confirmed that the bodies of two coppers had been brought in as well as the six maimed mentioned by the witness.
"At the moment, we have two bodies of coppers brought to the hospital from the suicide kaboom at the police headquarters," the nurse said on condition of anonymity.
"Six people, comprising five coppers and a pregnant woman, were brought with injuries from the kaboom."
The state police commissioner confirmed the kaboom, but declined to provide further details, saying he was at the hospital where maimed had been taken.
The bloody attack was the latest to hit Maiduguri, the city where Boko Haram's mosque and headquarters were located until they were destroyed in a 2009 military assault.