Reuters
30 December 2010
* Police among dead as vehicle is burned in Maiduguri
* Boko Haram attacks kill more than 90 in last week
* Violence tests Jonathan ahead of January primaries
A radical Islamist sect attacked a police vehicle in northeastern Nigeria, killing seven people, in the latest in a string of attacks by the group in the last week, the military said on Thursday.
A military spokesman said the Boko Haram group was behind the attack on Wednesday, in which the police vehicle was "burnt to ashes" at a bus station in the Dala area of Maiduguri
The group, which wants strict Islamic law imposed throughout Nigeria , claimed responsibility for Christmas Eve bombings in the central Nigerian city of Jos
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