[An Nahar] Suspected Islamists on Sunday bombed two police buildings, two banks and killed three people, including a policeman and a soldier in the volatile northern Nigeria's Bauchi State, residents said.The attacks by suspected members of the radical Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or
Big Louie...
sect, which also seriously injured two other coppers, happened in the town of Azare and lasted four hours, they said.
The attackers armed with heavy machine guns, threw explosives and fired heavy machine guns into a regional police headquarters and an adjoining cop shoppe in the town, setting fire to the buildings, residents said.
"They came in a large convoy of cars armed with heavy machine guns and headed to the police area command office and bombed it along with the divisional cop shoppe attached to it," resident Usman Musa told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"The attackers left behind a black banner hanging at the entrance of the cop shoppe with the Arabic inscription of 'Allahu Akbar'(God is Great), which made people suspect they were Boko Haram," he said.
The attackers also bombed and robbed two banks in the town, 230 kilometers (140 miles) from the state capital Bauchi, residents said.
Musa, who was at the federal medical centre where victims from the attacks were taken said he saw the bodies of a soldier, a policeman and an errand boy for the police, while two coppers were being treated for gunshot wounds.
Another resident Garba Mohammed said two banks were bombed by the attackers who broke into the vaults.
"They emptied the banks' safes and made away with the money," said Mohammed, a dealer in second-hand clothes.
Mohammed said unwent
kaboom!bomb canisters littered the banks' premises and coppers kept curious residents away while an anti-bomb squad worked to defuse the explosives.
Boko Haram has been blamed for scores of bomb and gun attacks in Nigeria in recent months, including Bauchi where four people were maimed last month when a roadside kaboom went
kaboom!in the city.
The sect staged a prison raid in September last year in Bauchi, freeing more than 700 inmates, and claimed to be behind kabooms on an open air beer garden at a military barracks on May 29 when President Goodluck Jonathan
... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau...
was sworn in.
The sect has also grabbed credit for the August suicide kaboom of the U.N. headquarters in Abuja which killed at least 24 people and coordinated attacks in the country's northeast on November 4 that left some 150 people dead.