<p>Suspected members of a radical Islamist sect carried out bomb attacks and shootings targeting the police headquarters and a mosque in two Nigerian cities, killing 17 people, police and media report said today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The suspected Boko Haram assailants besieged the police headquarters in northeastern city of Gombe, killing 12 people, including officers, police said.<br /><br />Through coordinated gun and bomb assaults, the attackers tried to break into a prison in a failed attempt to free the inmates.<br /><br />It has accused the authorities of illegally holding many of their members in prisons and have demanded their release.<br /><br />In the second incident, at least five worshipers were gunned down inside a mosque yesterday evening in the country's second largest city Kano, Daily Trust reported.<br />Boko Haram has been waging a bloody insurgency to install an Islamic government and Sharia rule in Nigeria.<br /><br />It has carried out a wave of bomb attacks and shootings across the the country, including the January 20 multiple terror attacks in Kano that killed 185 people, including an Indian from Gujarat.<br /><br />A suicide bomb attack by the group at the United Nations headquarters in Abuja in July last year killed 26 person.<br /><br />Last Saturday, suspected gunmen from the Boko Haram shot dead a cleric and local politician in northeastern city of Maiduguri.<br /><br />Nigeria, with a population of 150-million, has large number of Muslim and Christian population. Muslims predominant in the north of the country while Christians mostly live in the South</p>
<p>Suspected members of a radical Islamist sect carried out bomb attacks and shootings targeting the police headquarters and a mosque in two Nigerian cities, killing 17 people, police and media report said today.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The suspected Boko Haram assailants besieged the police headquarters in northeastern city of Gombe, killing 12 people, including officers, police said.<br /><br />Through coordinated gun and bomb assaults, the attackers tried to break into a prison in a failed attempt to free the inmates.<br /><br />It has accused the authorities of illegally holding many of their members in prisons and have demanded their release.<br /><br />In the second incident, at least five worshipers were gunned down inside a mosque yesterday evening in the country's second largest city Kano, Daily Trust reported.<br />Boko Haram has been waging a bloody insurgency to install an Islamic government and Sharia rule in Nigeria.<br /><br />It has carried out a wave of bomb attacks and shootings across the the country, including the January 20 multiple terror attacks in Kano that killed 185 people, including an Indian from Gujarat.<br /><br />A suicide bomb attack by the group at the United Nations headquarters in Abuja in July last year killed 26 person.<br /><br />Last Saturday, suspected gunmen from the Boko Haram shot dead a cleric and local politician in northeastern city of Maiduguri.<br /><br />Nigeria, with a population of 150-million, has large number of Muslim and Christian population. Muslims predominant in the north of the country while Christians mostly live in the South</p>