[An Nahar] Gun battles after suspected Islamists attacked police posts and a prison in northern Nigeria's Kano city left 17 "extremists" and one police officer dead, police said Wednesday."A total of 17 bully boyz were killed by our men. We lost a police corporal," said Kano State Police Commissioner Ibrahim Idris regarding the festivities that took place late Tuesday.
The latest unrest in Nigeria's second largest city, repeatedly hit by Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
Islamists, began when Death Eaters launched coordinated gun and kabooms on the Dala, Panshekara and Shallawa police posts.
The Garan Dutse prison was also targeted.
"All these attacks were repelled," said Idris. "Our officers responded and drove the assailants away."
The police commissioner added that three suspects were tossed in the clink
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
and were being interrogated, while officers recovered 14 improvised bombs as well as rifles, ammunition and vehicles.
No group has claimed the overnight attacks, but the violence was likely to be blamed on Boko Haram.
Kano was the site of the Islamist group's deadliest attack yet, when coordinated bombings and shootings left at least 185 people dead in January.
The Boko Haram insurgency, concentrated in Nigeria's mainly Mohammedan north, has killed more than 1,000 people since mid-2009.
Security forces have frequently been the victims of its attacks, though it has continually widened its targets.