Boko Haram attack foiled in Bama

Police in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state have repelled an attack on a police post in Bama, Borno state, by gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect.

One person died while 11 others were arrested.

.”A large group of gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram attacked the mobile police base yesterday around 17:00 hours but the attack was repelled,” state police spokesman Samuel Tizhe told AFP today.

.”One gunman was killed in the shootout and 11 were arrested while two bags containing Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) were abandoned by the fleeing attackers,” he said.He said the incident happened in Bama, some 70 kilometres (45 miles) from Maiduguri, the hotbed of recent deadly attacks by the Islamist Boko Haram sect which have claimed hundreds of lives.