Kano: At least 10 people have been killed and several others wounded after suspected members of the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram set fire to churches and border posts in northeastern Nigeria on Sunday.
According to witnesses, around 50 gunmen in cars and on motorcycles carried out the attacks on three churches and border posts with neighbouring Cameroon, opening fire on police and chanting Allahu Akbar (God is Greatest).
Among the security posts burned were offices for immigration, customs and the secret police and a quarantine building in the city of Gamboru Ngala, about 140 kilometres (80 miles) from the Boko Haram stronghold of Maiduguri.
Residents reported gun battles between the assailants and police reinforcements who arrived from Maiduguri.
Violence linked to the Boko Haram insurgency in northern and central Nigeria is believed to have left some 3,000 people dead since 2009, including killings by the security forces.
Boko Haram, which means “Western education is a sin” in the northern Hausa language, has claimed many attacks in northern and central parts of Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and top oil producer.
Nigeria’s population of some 160 million is roughly divided between the mainly Muslim north and the predominantly Christian south.
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