A shootout between Nigerian police and suspected members of a Islamist organisation Boko Haram has left 7 dead, while 14 people have been arrested and explosives seized, authorities pronounced Sunday.
The shootout on Saturday in Kano came after a suspected Boko Haram personality detected his residence was underneath notice and called out other members of a organisation to conflict police, Kano state military commissioner Ibrahim Idris said.
Two of a military officers on notice avocation in a northern city were killed, Idris told reporters. Reinforcements were sent, with one of those officers also shot passed and another wounded.
"Four of a associate members were shot dead," he said, referring to a suspected Boko Haram members.
Some of a extremists fled, and a suspected leader, Mohammed Aliyu, who also goes by a alias Hamza, was arrested during a checkpoint, according to Idris. Members of a open also followed a suspects, he said.
Police pronounced they found rifles in his automobile that had been stolen from military in Yobe and Kaduna states. Bomb materials were found in his house, according to Idris.
Raids were also carried out on other locations progressing in a week that led to arrests and a seizure of weapons and explosives, a commissioner announced. A sum of 14 arrests were done in a operations, he said.
Police pronounced a suspects were not from Kano, a largest city in northern Nigeria, and indicated they had come from Borno and Yobe states, that have been tough strike by assault blamed on Boko Haram.
Northern Nigeria has been strike by scores of attacks blamed on a Islamist sect, though Kano had not formerly been targeted given a latest turn of assault attributed to a organisation began in 2010.
In an occurrence on Thursday, gunmen pounded a military-run propagandize outward a city, murdering during slightest 3 atmosphere force personnel, though it was misleading if there was any couple to Boko Haram.
A supposed orator for a sect, Abul Qaqa, told reporters a organisation was not behind a propagandize attack, though claimed it was concerned in a shootout during a residence in Kano.
Most of a assault attributed to Boko Haram has occurred in a country's northeast, though it also claimed shortcoming for a Aug self-murder bombing of UN domicile in Abuja that killed during slightest 24 people.
It is believed to have several factions with varying aims.
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