Islamist gunmen kill eight in northern Nigeria attack

Scores of Islamist gunmen attacked a police station, a court and a bank in northern Nigeria on Wednesday, killing seven officers and a civilian, a police chief said. The raid in the town of Gwaram in Jigawa state sparked an hours-long shoot-out with the security forces, said Tamari Yabo, the assistant inspector-general of police in charge of the region. Boko Haram Islamists, waging a brutal insurgency which has killed thousands since 2009, have carried out dozens of attacks in surrounding areas, but Jigawa itself has been spared much of the violence. "We lost seven policeman. One civilian was also killed," Mr Yabo said of the fighting roughly 60 miles from Jigawa's capital Dutse.

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