KANO. — Nigerian troops killed a suspected Boko Haram militant yesterday during a pre-dawn raid in the city of Kano over weekend attacks against church services that left around 20 people dead. A military task force stormed a two-bedroom bungalow in the troubled northern city’s Bubbugaje district, two days after attackers armed with bombs and guns sowed carnage among churchgoers on Kano’s Bayero university campus.
Security sources on the scene said that one suspected Islamist was killed when a shootout erupted during the raid while another managed to escape.
Brigadier-General Iliasu Isa Abba said the raid was part of the search for the perpetrators of Sunday's attacks, the latest violence against Christians blamed on Boko Haram's Islamists. — AFP.