Gunmen attack Nigerian vice president's house

Kaduna/Sokoto, 31 Jul – (ANA) - Gunmen on motorbikes attacked the country house of Nigerian Vice President Namadi Sambo in Zaria in northern Kaduna state, but he was not in the building at the time, police said. One civilian was killed in the attack.

Islamist sect Boko Haram are behind almost daily killings in the north of Nigeria in an insurgency against President Goodluck Jonathan's administration. The sect mostly targets authority and religious figures. The sect wants to carve out an Islamic state within Africa's largest oil exporter, a country of more than 160 million people split roughly equally between Muslims and Christians. Hundreds of miles northwest of Zaria in the remote city of Sokoto, suicide bombers targeted police stations on Monday. (ANA)

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