Weekend attacks, clashes kill 8 in north Nigeria

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Weekend attacks, clashes kill 8 in north Nigeria
Officials say four security officers and at least four assailants have died in two northern Nigerian cities which have seen a spate of sectarian violence.           

Kano state police chief Ibrahim Idris said policemen killed four men who were attempting to bomb a mosque Sunday in the major city of Kano.        

Air Commodore Sani Ahmed, a Nigerian air force official in Kano, said motorcycle-mounted gunmen also killed two air force officers Sunday.       

The violence follows a Friday night clash in the northeastern city of Damaturu that left a policeman and a soldier dead.          

Yobe state police spokesman Toyin Gbadagesin said police blamed members of a radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram for the Damaturu attack.       

He said security officers then razed a house believed to be harboring sect members.           

There has been an upsurge of such clashes largely blamed on Boko Haram.    

AP           

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