[An Nahar] Gunmen have attacked two pubs in northeastern Nigeria, killing four people amid a wave of such violence blamed on Islamist group 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
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, residents and police said Saturday.
The attacks occurred in two neighboring states on Friday night and involved gunnies riding on cycle of violences storming in on the drinking spots.
"Unknown gunnies attacked a beer parlour at BCJ (a district) and killed two persons," Gombe state police front man Ahmed Mohammed said on the phone.
Umar Dukku, a resident in the area said two gunnies stormed into the bar and fired indiscriminately. One person was maimed in the attack.
"They just fired into the beer parlour and zoomed off on the cycle of violence they parked outside," Dukku said.
In nearby Adamawa state two gunnies arrived on a
cycle of violence and opened fire on an open-air pub in the Dandu area in the state capital Yola late Friday, also wounding a policeman while fleeing."We took two dead bodies of the victims to the hospital last night," local community leader Tijjani Tukur said. "The gunnies arrived in the area and opened fire on people drinking at the open air tavern."
Adamawa state police spokeswoman Altine Daniel confirmed the attack but said only a policeman was injured.
"There was an attack on an outdoor beer joint by some gunnies last night in which a policeman was shot in the leg and is being treated in hospital," Daniel said.
Adamawa has been hit by a series of such attacks in recent days, with much of the violence blamed on the radical Islamist Boko Haram.
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the state holds governorship elections on January 2l, with campaign periods often provoking violence in Nigeria.
Yola was also targeted last week when gunnies opened fire on worshippers at a church, killing at least eight people. On Wednesday, gunnies attacked a cop shoppe in the city, leaving one officer dead.
Also last week, gunnies opened fire on Christian Igbos at a house in the town of Mubi in Adamawa as they mourned the death of a friend killed in a shooting the night before, leaving 17 dead.
Adamawa was also hit by an attack late Thursday on a Moslem village by a suspected Christian mob from a nearby community which left two dead and several homes and mosques burnt.
A curfew has been declared in Yola and other trouble spots.
Spiraling violence in Nigeria, most of it blamed on Boko Haram, has sparked fears of a wider conflict in a country roughly divided between a mainly Moslem north and predominately Christian south.