At
least two policemen were killed in Bama Town, 75km from Maiduguri,
the Borno Statecapital, when gunmen attempted to kill the Divisional
Police Officer (DPO) of a police station on Thursday afternoon.
Police
sources and residents of Bama said several houses around the Police
Divisional headquarters were torched in ensuing shootout between the
gunmen and security forces.
Hundreds
of residents of Kasubula area of Bama, where the incident took place
have so far fled their homes and are currently taking refuge in the
surrounding bushes.
The
fighting was still going on as at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday.A civil servant
in Maiduguri, whose family live in Bama, said he received distress call
from his wife that their house has been torched.“My wife just called to
tell me that they were assisted to escape by jumping the fence when my
house was set on fire, and presently she and my two daughters are with
others in the bush,” said the traumatised civil servant, Muhammed Ali.
A top security source who pleaded anonymity confirmed the attack.
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