Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- A joint military task force in Nigeria arrested 158 suspected members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, security sources told CNN Tuesday, three days after a spate of bombings and shootings left more than 200 people dead in Nigeria's second-largest city.

Some suspects resisted arrest and exchanged gunfire with the task force in the city of Kano, said security sources who asked not to be named because they are not authorized to speak to the media.

No casualties have been reported so far, they said.

The arrests come as community leaders said the number of dead from the Kano bombing and gun attacks has risen to at least 211.

Government officials declined to confirm the number of victims. They previously put the death toll at 157.

President Goodluck Jonathan toured the city Sunday after the attacks there left the police headquarters and other government buildings in charred ruins Friday night.

"The message I had for the people of Kano is the same message I have for all Nigerians: A terrorist attack on one person is an attack on all of us," Jonathan said in a post on his official Facebook page after the visit.

Islamist group Boko Haram -- whose name means "western education is sacrilege" -- claimed responsibility for the blast in a phone call to the Daily Trust, according to journalists at the newspaper.

norrisman:

God knows that 99.9% of those arrested are innocent civillians picked in the immediate and suurounding areas of last Fridays bombings.

talk true:

But they told us that the bombers came from Chad?
Now they are arresting innocent people thereby attracting BH

Lasinoh:

Yeah right.
TiNuMbU was arrested too.
What nesssst?

eastman11:


Not all Muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are Muslim. Keep arresting them so long as they are Muslims.

norrisman:

Interesting. God knows that 99.9% of those arrested are innocent civillians picked in the immediate and suurounding areas of last Fridays bombings.

olajide_07:

the gore of what is left after the bombs

Kx:

These arrests are just for show.
We are getting to a point when we can assume that some innocent civilians are paid "arrest allowance" to be paraded on tv as suspects just for the world to assume someone has become serious overnite.

What do u expect them to do? All u can do is to post nonsense with confidence from the corner of ur room because u have access to internet.
As a good nigerian,why cant u volunteer urself to gather informations on boko haram and relates them to security authorities? Mtschew!!  

highland:

With what i read on vanguard this morning, i now believe Boko Aram insurgents is not invisible to the northern power men. Nigerians should just hope for God intervention in this political power game.

olajide_07:

the gore of what is left after the bombs

eastman11:


Not all Muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are Muslim. Keep arresting them so long as they are Muslims.

olajide_07:

bros what your own with tinubu naa him be boko haram you no see dead people or do you want me to post it again