Terrorists attack police station in northeastern Nigeria, kill four officers

Terrorists raided a police station in northeastern Nigeria on Saturday, killing four policemen, and also targeted a camp for displaced persons, authorities said.

Police said "terrorists suspected to be members of Boko Haram attacked the Nganzai Divisional Police Headquarters in an attempt to overrun the town", located less than 100 kilometres north of Maiduguri, the capital of northeastern Borno state.

Just over two weeks ago, triple suicide bombers hit a busy market and other areas in Maiduguri, killing at least 23 people.

Officers on duty in Saturday's incident "engaged the attackers in a fierce gun battle", a police spokesperson said in a statement, but "four police personnel" died.

Another terrorist act

Another group of terrorists 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 swiftly and repelled the attackers," police said in a statement.