ABUJA, Nigeria – An assault by Islamist militants on a police officer place in north Nigeria Sunday has left dozens of population dead, a police officer spokesperson said.
“A gathering of fundamentalists this early assailed a police officer place in Bauchi state,” Nigerian countrywide police officer spokesperson Emmanuel Ojukwu advised The Associated Press. “They were bearing arms with armaments, bows and missiles and explosives. There were some casualties but I not able to declare how more for now.”
Ojukwu would not give particulars of the disagree and said only that the number of dead was in the dozens. Bauchi state police officer spokesperson Mohammed Barau said most of the dead were Islamist fighters.
Ojukwu said police officer detained more than 100 warriors and that the circumstances in the state capital, where the assault happened, is now calm.
Bauchi state lies along a line separating Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim and pastoralist north inhabitants from southerly Christian and animist rural growers communities.
In a country of 140 million about separate between Muslims in the north and Christians and animists in the south, Bauchi is one of 12 north states where Islamic Shariah justice is practiced. Various gatherings have clashed before over its appropriate implementation.
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