At least 6 killed in fresh attack in northeast Nigeria

At least six people were killed on Friday in an attack on a community in northeast Nigeria's Borno State.

Security sources told Xinhua on phone from Maiduguri, the state capital, that 70 suspected members of the sect, Boko Haram, launched a bloody offensive on Damboa town, a remote community in the state in the early hours of Friday.

The police source told Xinhua that Boko Haram sect attacked a bank, police station and barracks with explosive devices leading to the death of a policeman and five others.

Scores of people were also said to be seriously injured.

Eyewitness in Damboa town said 13 corpses, four policemen, a traffic warden and eight civilians were counted after the attack.

State commissioner of police Mohammed Abubakar confirmed the incident to Xinhua but said he was yet to ascertain the number of death and casualties.

The attack came at a time when serial killings by suspected members of the sect, Boko Haram, continued in Borno.

More than 50 other persons, mostly security personnel, have so far been killed by suspected Boko Haram militants since July 2009, when they launched attacks on individuals. The Boko Haram launched the first attack in the state in July 2009, during which many were killed and wounded with properties destroyed.

The sect's leader Mohammed Yusuf and his alleged financier Buji Foi were killed in a counter attack by the security operative.

Members of the sect staged an uprising in Maiduguri in 2009, attacking symbols of the government authorities including prisons, police stations and schools, leading to clashes with security forces in which an estimated 800 people were killed.

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