Police targeted in multiple north Nigeria attacks
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A witness and an official say assailants have bombed a police outpost and station in two northern Nigerian cities.
Salisu Ado, who lives near the outpost, said a blast occurred at around 6 p.m. Tuesday in Damaturu, a northeast Nigerian city that suffered multiple attacks last week.
Yobe state police chief Patrick Egbuniwe said security forces were fighting back gunmen in Damaturu.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}He could not immediately say if anyone was hurt or what had been targeted.
Police say some 40 people died last week in Damaturu in attacks blamed on a radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram. They hit 13 targets.
Meanwhile, Nigerian Red Cross official Andronicus Adeyemo said assailants bombed a police station Tuesday evening in Kano, Nigeria's second-largest city. There was no immediate word on casualties there.