Explosions gunfire echoes through northeast Nigeria city previously targeted by sect
Source: Washington Post / AP
GOMBE, Nigeria — Explosions and gunfire could be heard Friday night across a city in northeast Nigeria previously targeted by a radical Islamist sect, as authorities in another city blame its members for killing five people leaving a mosque.
An Associated Press reporter in Gombe, the capital of Gombe state, heard the blasts around evening prayers in the city. Gunfire quickly followed the explosions, with witnesses saying people began fleeing the area near a police command and an immigration office.
Gombe state police commissioner Orubebe Ghandi Ebikeme simply described the situation as “very bad,” declining to give further comment. Other authorities could not be immediately reached for comment.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, though suspicion immediately fell on the radical sect known as Boko Haram.
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