Abuja: At least seven people were killed in separate attacks by militants targeting security patrols in northern Nigeria, media reported on Tuesday.
According to reports gunmen on motorbikes opened fire on a joint army and police patrol in the remote northeast Nigerian town of Mubi overnight, killing two security officials and three civilians.
In other incident, gunmen in the north’s biggest city of Kano ambushed a joint military and police patrol, triggering a gun battle in which two policemen were killed. One of the suspected militants also died in the battle.
The gunmen’s identities were not known, although suspicion is likely to fall on Islamist sect Boko Haram, which is waging an increasingly violent insurgency against Nigeria’s government in the north that has mostly targeted security forces.
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