Police Kill Militants, Smash Arms Syndicate

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22 Feb 2011

Police Kill Militants, Smash Arms Syndicate

Six suspected Boko Haram members, including one of their financiers, one Alhaji Salifu, were killed Monday as the police in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, smashed the syndicate responsible for the supply of arms and ammunitions to the dreaded fundamentalist group.

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Parading three arrested Boko Haram suspects before newsmen in Maiduguri, Borno State Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Abubakar Mohammed, disclosed that most of the arms and ammunitions used by the fundamentalists are smuggled from neighbouring Cameroon and Chad Republics.