Boko Haram: 5 killed in Kano shoot-out

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines, Kano, State News Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

From Desmond Mgboh, Kano

The joint security team, which battled with the members of the Boko Haram sect in Mariri in Kano State on Monday night, may have deployed a rocket propeller to finally end the confrontation, a security source said in Kano yesterday.

Throwing insight into the operation, which lasted several hours until the early hours of yesterday, security sources told the Daily Sun that the operation was planned and successfully executed by a joint team of the Nigeria Army, the Nigeria Police and the State Security Service (SSS).

At the end of the operation, which took place in Gado Quarters in Mariri area, no fewer than five suspected members of the sect were killed while an unspecified number was arrested.
Officially, the police in Kano confirmed that items recovered from the scene of the operation include 10 AK47 assault rifles, 106 rounds of live ammunition, 36 magazines and seven bags of fertilizers .
Security sources said that the affected building has been under surveillance for sometimes while describing the heavily walled structure as either a base or a hideout of the sect “or something close to the two.”

Similarly, the Daily Sun gathered from security sources that at Sharada Police Division which the sect bombed on the same night, “at least one person was killed though the figure could be more.”
The source confirmed that at least one mobile policeman was killed in the gunfight.
The source added that some of the members of the sect came for the operation on their motorbikes adding that some bikes were recovered after the confrontation.
The source recalled that at some point in the shoot-out, the members of the sect ran into a farm and were shooting at the security officials from the farm before they finally disappeared from the environment.
Following the incident, there was renewed apprehension in the state capital as some shops and institutions, including the Sabon Gari market, (Abubakar Rimi Market) was temporarily shut in the morning hours.
The apprehension also resulted in unfounded speculation that the curfew hours have been extended to 4.pm instead of 6.pm, a result of which some offices and business concerns closed for the day as early as 3.30pm

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