(AFP) — Gunmen suspected to be members of the Islamist sect Boko Haram on Saturday bombed a police station, a bank and a beer parlour in Nigeria’s northeastern Yobe state, residents said.
The gunmen threw explosives into a police station and a beer parlour in Geidam town, 160 kilometres (100 miles) from the state capital Damaturu, they said.
The attackers, armed with Kalashnikov rifles, also bombed a bank near the police station and carted away money from its vault.
Gaidam is the home town of the Yobe state governo Ibrahim Gaidam.
“The attackers who are from all indications members of Boko Haram came in a large number and attacked the police station with explosives and gunshots and burnt it down”, resident Abba Kashim said.”