KANO (AFP) – Gunmen have killed
the justice commissioner for
Borno state, the hotbed of an
Islamist insurgency, and an ex-
prisons chief in another area,
government and police sources said Tuesday. “We received the report of the
death of the commissioner of
justice, Zannah Malam Gana,” a
government official said on
condition of anonymity of the
attack in the town of Bama in northeastern Nigeria late
Monday. “He was shot dead by some
gunmen in his house around 8:45
pm last night.” A police source said a former
national prisons chief was also
shot dead in Bauchi state in
Nigeria’s north. “The former comptroller-general
of prisons is dead,” the senior
police officer said. “He died from
the wounds he sustained in the
attack last night.” While it was not immediately
clear who was behind the killings,
they occurred after security
forces on Monday shot dead
two suspected high-ranking
members of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram. Boko Haram is blamed for more
than 1,400 deaths in northern
and central Nigeria as part of its
insurgency.
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