| Islamic militants seeking to install a Taliban-style regime in northeastern Nigeria attacked a police convoy, killing three officers and abducting a dozen, police said Saturday. Borno State police chief Adewale Ajakaiye said the militants attacked a convoy on Friday carrying 60 policemen as the motorcade struggled in deep mud at Kala-Balge, a village some 125 miles northeast of the regional capital, Maiduguri. The radical sect known as Al-Sunna wal Jamma, or "Followers of Mohammed's Teachings" in Arabic, comprises mainly university students who want to create a Taliban-style state in Africa's most populous nation — home to 126 million people. |