MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – Police say gunmen have shot a policeman dead, the latest in a rash of killings targeting security officers in Nigeria's northeast.
The Borno State police chief said Tuesday the policeman on patrol was killed in a drive-by shooting Monday evening near St. Mary Catholic Church in the city of Maiduguri.
Mohammed Abubakar accuses a radical Muslim sect locally known as Boko Haram for the killing.
Boko Haram members have targeted police and clerics in a string of killings over the last year. They have also attacked churches and engineered a massive prison break.
Boko Haram, whose name in Hausa means "Western education is sacrilege," has campaigned for the implementation of strict Shariah law.
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