Bomb attacks by suspected Islamist militants Sunday left three people dead in northern Nigeria's Bauchi State, an official and residents said. The suspected members of the radical Boko Haram sect, armed with heavy machine guns, threw explosives and fired into a police compound in the town of Azare, setting the buildings on fire, residents said.
"They came in a large convoy," resident Usman Musa told AFP, adding that the assailants hung a black banner at the entrance of the police station reading "Allahu Akbar" (God Is Great).
Musa said he saw the bodies of a soldier, a policeman and a police employee at a medical centre, where another two policemen were being treated for gunshot wounds. The assailants also bombed and robbed two banks in the town, residents said.