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Detectives are investigating if the gunmen were linked to the country’s al-Qaeda offshoot.
A detachment of 60 policemen were on their way to arrest the leader of the Ombatse militia when the group’s fighters launched their attack.
At least 23 officers were killed and many were still missing, said Abayomi Akeremale, the police commissioner of Nasarawa State, which lies on the nominal border between Nigeria’s Christian south and its Muslim north.
Nigeria’s Boko Haram gunmen Tuesday launched coordinated attacks on military barracks, a prison and police stations in the northeastern town of Bama, killing 55 people and setting free 105 inmates, the army said.
“In these attacks, 55 people including two soldiers, some prison warders, policemen and civilians were killed,” said Musa Sagir, the military spokesman in Maiduguri, 67 kilometres from Bama.
Soldiers of the SSLA/M
The leadership of South Sudan Liberation Army, South Sudan Democratic Army and South Sudan Defense Forces has declared peace with the government of South Sudan starting from April, 26, 2013. All the rebels will start interacting with the SPLA army without any confrontation to bring peace to our country. We have ordered all rebel forces to move to the areas controlled by the SPLA to achieve peace.
Today, 5,000 forces of SSLA have moved to Mayom County as part of the ongoing peace process President Salva Kiir Mayardit has called for since January, 2013. On April, 24, President Kiir issued amnesty to all rebels to facilitate peace in our country. As a result of that, the South Sudan rebel groups declared that they would move to areas under the control of the SPLA army.
Some 3,000 fighters from one of South Sudan’s biggest rebels groups, the SSLA, have handed in their weapons, officials
say.
The former rebels crossed the border from Sudan in about 100 trucks, a local official told Reuters news agency.
Reports from Dobley town in lower Juba region confirm that there was a heavy battle between Kenyan troops and al-Shabaab fighter’s at the outskirts of the town.
The fighting started when al-Shabaab fighters launched an assault on a Kenyan envoy that departed from Dobley town heading to Hosingow town in the lower Juba region.
Eye witness who is at Dobley town has confirmed with Shabelle radio that heavy rockets and heavy bombardments are being exchanged between the two sides and the sound of gun fire is heard from nearby locations.
Fighting between soldiers and Islamic extremists in northeast Nigeria killed at least 187 people, the worst single incident of violence in the region since an insurgency there began three years ago, an aid agency said Monday.
Nigeria’s military blocked access for relief officials to enter the town of Baga, which sits along the shores of Lake Chad in the nation’s far northeast, said Nwakpa O. Nwakpa, a Red Cross spokesman. Another 77 people are receiving medical care there in the ruins of a town where some 300 homes burned down, he said.
A fierce fighting has occurred at Bardera town in Gedo region. This was after a fierce engagement broke up between members of al-Shabaab militia.
The town has not been liberated yet and is in the hands of al-Shabaab for now.
The fighting begun when two (Amirs) leaders, both from al-Shabaab disagreed with a decision to impose a curfew in the region.