Suspected Boko Haram Militants Kill Four Policemen In Kaduna

SaharaReporters has learned from a police source in Kaduna town of the killing by suspected Boko Haram sect fighters of about four policemen in the Tudun Wada area.

The suspected sect members are said to have monitored the policemen from the premises of a nearby GT Bank on Kaduna Western Bypass to a street in Tudun Wada area where they attacked their vehicle and shot them to death.

The suspects, after ensuring that the men were dead, stole their guns and other items and fled into thin air.  It is the first attack against the security agencies in Kaduna State in 2014.

Kaduna State police spokesman DSP Aminu Lawan could not be reached for comment, but a source in the community who asked for anonymity said the gunmen had sophisticated arms in their possession.

“We were inside and heard the sound of their firing, it was terrible and terrifying,” he told SaharaReporters.   “But I can also add that they are not from our area, because they just trailed [the policemen] and we don’t have such elements in our community.”