KANO (AFP) – Gunmen armed with explosives attacked a police station, a primary school and two cellphone towers in a town in Fika, Damaturu on Sunday, setting them ablaze, JTF and residents said.

“We heard that there were some attacks in Fika by suspected Boko Haram terrorists. They attacked two telecommunication masts, a police station and a primary school,” said Lazarus Eli, JTF spokesman in Yobe State.

A resident said he had seen the bodies of two policemen being brought out of the razed police station, but Eli said he could not immediately confirm any casualties.

Eli said troops had deployed to the town to contain the violence. Fika lies some 170 kilometres (110 miles) from Damaturu, the capital of Yobe State and a hotbed of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram.

Residents said the gunmen attacked their targets with explosives before dawn at around 4:30 am.

“They threw explosives and fired gunshots at their targets, setting them ablaze, and fled after the attack,” Tanimu Mani told AFP.

“Soldiers who arrived in the town went inside the burnt police station and brought out the bodies of two policemen killed in the attack,” he said.

Another resident, student Hassan Gaji, said he had heard blasts and gunshots during early morning prayers.

“They were shooting seriously for about one hour,” he said, adding that the town had been taken over by police and soldiers.

He said the attackers had entered Fika on the road leading from Potiskum to the north “and went straight to the police station, bombed it and proceeded to the primary school in the town”.

A police source said the attackers looted the armoury before setting the police station ablaze.

“They emptied the armoury during the attack and took away some 20 guns and some rounds of ammunition,” the officer, who did not want to be named, told AFP.

Witnesses said panicked residents were fleeing Fika for nearby Potiskum on Sunday following the attack.

“A lot of people are now leaving for Potiskum which has been relatively calm in recent weeks,” the witness said.

Some towns in Yobe state, including Damaturu, Potiskum and Fika have been hard hit by deadly attacks by Boko Haram in recent months, leaving hundreds of people dead and prompting a heavy army deployment.

Violence linked to the Boko Haram insurgency is believed to have left more than 2,800 people dead since 2009, including killings by the security forces.

Boko Haram has claimed to be seeking an Islamic state in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and largest oil producer, although its demands have repeatedly shifted.

The sect has targeted government and security figures, as well as Christians in churches and even mosques, prominent Muslim clerics and scholars in the country, which is divided between a mainly Muslim north and predominantly Christian south.
www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/gunmen-burn-police-station-school-in-yobe/

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I pity our brothers in d north cuz in 10 yrs time the kind of abject poverty there will surpass any in sub saharan. War against education is a war against a nations success. Sir kemeh u re there

Is this how the negotiation will take place?
Boko Haram, U cannot deceive us.

Hmmm, PDP come 2015 i no wan see u for power. . . Too much colateral damage. . . We don taya for Una sef

I am very sure this is PDP led Boko Haram.No doubt about it!

If U̶̲̥̅̊ D̶̲̥̅̊ε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥ Fø̲̣̣я̅ naija §ay̷̐ a prayer

Same old story! D best tin to happen to me ƻ wen I leav dis country!

It's amazing how monsters kill police officers with such ease. Too many fearless people in Nigeria.

Is their anyone still doubting if Nigeria is a failed state?.

The situation will soon fizzle out --- Gej

BH boys are back!!!!
RIP TO THE DEAD.
I wish that one day one of their suicide bombers will mistakenly do a test run within one of their facilities. That will be a great day for me.

beespak7: The situation will soon fizzle out --- Gej

....The president is deeply disturbed with this bombing , he has condemned the bombing in its strongest terms, he has reiterated the determination and commitment of his government to eradicate boko haram before christmas........and gone back to his deep sleep and will wake up to continue with his transformation from shoeless to shoed at midnight.....Big Dr D Okupepe

Well done again boys! Our government never listen and I m tired of hearing same stories! Next Topic plz

I thought Buhari is negotiating on their behalf. Buhari please call your boys to order.

How long will dis insurgency continue.....? When will dis blood shed cease....? Yet d policies of our governments are not in any way helping matters.......innocent youths are recently sent down to such volatile points as yobe, borno amidst others in d name of NYSC.......Oooooo GOD unto U do we have our refuge oooooooo! My heartfelt feelings goes to d families of d deceased.....May all NYSC newly deployed corps members deployed to these war zone remain safe....May God create an openning for their re-deployment back to safe zones ooooo

Who are these Boko Haram sef?

ubong560: Who are these Boko Haram sef?

Ask google or wikipedia...smh

So many fucktards!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KTCp2oCwOk

And una wan Dialogue Thunda crash una Family dia!

denzel2009: So many fucktards!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KTCp2oCwOk

Lol funny video

God..., 3 of my frenz are posted to this state o!

Jtf carry mortar wipe the whole city, you must touch at least half of the bokos

SimplySEA: God..., 3 of my frenz are posted to this state o!

if they go there will die in Jesus name

chei & d slow poke has accepted all dia conditions nxt time dey will shift dia dialogue venue to paradise hotel on d moon

I TOT THE POLICE HAS KEPT SENATOR ZANNA AND HIS COHORTS UNDER WATCH LIST, MAY BE THEY SHUD INCLUDE BUHARI AND ALL OTHERS DELIGHTED IN NIGERIANS BLOOD.

k2039:

Is their anyone still doubting if Nigeria is a failed state?.

only idiots

may God help our nation,Nigeria.things ar really getting out of hand.