Gunmen believed to be members of a radical Islamist sect attacked a police barracks and a bank in north Nigeria Friday, police said.
"There was an attack today on a police barracks and a bank by gunmen believed to be (members of the) Boko Haram sect," Borno State police commissioner Mohammed Jinjiri Abubakar told AFP of the incident in Damboa, about 100 kilometres (62 miles) south of Maiduguri, the state capital.
"They robbed the bank and used explosives on a police barracks," he said.
The police chief could immediately not say if anyone was injured or killed.
"We still don't have details on casualities. I am on my way to ascertain the situation and extent of damage from the attacks," he said.
Police have blamed the sect for a series of bomb attacks and shootings in Maiduguri in recent months.
Most of the attacks have targeted military and police personnel, community and religious leaders, and politicians.
Boko Haram, which means 'western education is sin' in a local dialect, launched a short-lived uprising in parts of the north in 2OO9 in a doomed bid to establish an Islamic state.
The attempt was crushed in a brutal military crackdown that saw hundreds of people, including many sect members, killed and its headquarters and mosque destroyed in Maiduguri, where most of the violence has occurred.
The sect has since staged a low-level insurgency and has been blamed for recent raids on churches and a prison.
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