MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – A Nigerian official says suspected members of a radical Muslim sect wounded four soldiers in a car-bombing in the country’s restive northeast.
Maj. Gen. Jack Nwachukwu Nwaogbo says assailants from the Boko Haram sect threw a bomb at a patrol car in the city of Maiduguri on Wednesday morning.
A resident told an Associated Press reporter that gunfire was heard Tuesday night. Authorities cordoned off the area Wednesday morning.
Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is sacrilege” in the local Hausa language, is responsible for a rash of killings targeting security officers, local leaders and clerics in the area over the last year. They have also claimed responsibility for a bombing at the nation’s police headquarters that killed two last month.
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