The Borno state police spokesman said Tuesday that Boko Haram gunmen attacked an air force barracks, a police station and an army checkpoint Monday, about 90 miles (150 kilometers) north of the sect’s stronghold in the city of Maiduguri.
Samuel Tizhe said the dead include a soldier, two policemen and two civilians.
An army official said a soldier was shot in the arm during the checkpoint attack.
Boko Haram claimed responsibility for a series of attacks that left at least 185 dead in northern Nigeria’s largest city, Kano, earlier this month.
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