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Policemen
walk outside police headquarters in the Bompai area of Kano, Nigeria on January
24, 2012 ©Aminu Abubakar (AFP)
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Six people, including
three police, were killed in a suspected Boko Haram suicide attack at a petrol
station in Nigeria's biggest city, Kano, police said on Friday.
"A man driving a
Toyota Sienna drove into the filling station as if he was going to buy fuel.
The vehicle exploded causing six deaths, including three policemen," the
Kano state police commissioner Adelenre Shinaba told reporters.
"It is obviously a
suicide attack," he said of the blast in the Hotoro area of the city and
blamed "the terrorists we've been battling", referring to Boko Haram
Islamists.
"Yes, three
policemen and three civilians were killed by a suicide bomber in a Toyota this
evening at Hotoro, Kano metropolis," said Magaji Musa, spokesman for Kano
State police command. Five other people were injured.
Kano has been the target of
several bombings by Boko Haram militants in their five-year-old campaign to
carve out an Islamic caliphate in Nigeria's north.
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