Gunmen overnight raided a town in Bauchi state and killed at least ten people, a traditional leader said Sunday.
“We are going round the town checking. So far we have ten people dead and 12 wounded,” Bukata Zhyadi, a traditional ruler of the mainly Christian Sayawa ethnic group, he said.
He blamed the attack in Tafawa Balewa in Bauchi state on the Muslim Hausa-Fulani ethnic group.
He said the attackers hurled home-made hand grenades into houses while people were sleeping and shot at those trying to escape.
“Some were shot while trying to escape and some died as a result of the explosives,” he said.
“In the exchange of fire that ensued, a policeman, a soldier and eight unidentified civilians were killed by stray bullets,” police spokesman Mohammed Barau said adding that six suspects had been arrested.
Bombs were also thrown at a Catholic church and an evangelical church in Bauchi city, but caused minimal damage and no deaths or injuries, police said.
Residents also said a bomb-laden car was found abandoned outside a government-run fuel station in Kano but that the explosives were defused by police.
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