LAGOS, April 5, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - Militants raided a police station in northeastern Nigeria on Saturday, killing four policemen, and also targeted a camp for displaced persons, the force said as the country experiences a surge in jihadist violence. Officers on duty in Saturday's incident "engaged the attackers in a fierce gun battle", a police spokesman said in a statement, but "four police personnel" died. Another group of jihadists targeted a security post at the entrance of a camp hosting internally displaced persons in Damasak, near the border with Niger. They killed a member of the local security volunteers and set about 20 thatched houses ablaze, police said. In both attacks the police, military civilian volunteers "responded responded swiftly, repelled the attackers" said the police in a statement.

Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha April 05, 2026 04:04 UTC