BBC
2 February 2012
It was, by all accounts, a devastating dawn raid on a married couple in their suburban house in northern Kano , Nigeria .
The security force's bullets tore through the walls, leaving gaping holes an inch wide, and a car was shot to pieces.
Tiles outside the door of the bedroom - which had been turned upside down in what appeared to be a frantic search for evidence - were stained with blood.
It was part of a sweep by security forces in which 150 people were arrested in the northern city of Kano .
It came three days after the 20 January string of bombings by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram killed at least 185 people - mostly civilians.
'Decent man'
One woman, who said she had raised the man killed in the attack from birth, is inconsolable.
"Alhaji was a decent man all his life. We always praised his attitude. We're all in shock," she told the BBC, as she wept heavily.
"I will never forgive those who killed him. I can't forgive them."
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