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Terrorists kill policeman, nine others in Borno, Kano,culled from guardian news.

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SUSPECTED terrorists attacked a residential compound in Bolori ward of Maiduguri, Borno State and killed nine people in the early hours of Monday .

The attack came barely 48 hours after the National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) held a closed door meeting with traditional and religious leaders, including the Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Umar Garbai

El-Kanemi and Governor Kashim Shettima over the insurgency in the North.

Also, gunmen killed a policeman in the early hours of Monday at Chiranchi quarters in Kano while he was getting his motorcycle repaired.

Sources said that the policeman was attacked by men in green clothes who were on a Lifan motorcycle.

An eyewitness Sani Ibrahim said around 7:20 a.m. some men who were on a motorcycle began to shoot a man until he fell and they kept firing to scare away the onlookers before riding away. A passerby was injured at the scene.

The police arrived later at the scene and took away the body.

The police pubic relations officer Rilwanu Dutse could not confirm the incident at the time of filing the report but insisted that investigation was going on and that the command would respond.

An eyewitness of the attacks and killings in Bolori ward, Maiduguri said that the terrorists, numbering about 12 with Kalashnikov rifles, knives and swords, slit the throats of their victims without firing a single gunshot.

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