{"id":16098,"date":"2011-12-18T08:26:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T08:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/nigeria-gunmen-kill-policeman-in-northern-city\/"},"modified":"2011-12-18T08:26:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T08:26:12","slug":"nigeria-gunmen-kill-policeman-in-northern-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/18\/nigeria-gunmen-kill-policeman-in-northern-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Gunmen Kill Policeman in Northern  City"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rnw.nl\/africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/rnw180.png\" alt=\"Radio Netherlands Worldwide (Hilversum)\" title=\"Visit Radio Netherlands Worldwide (Hilversum)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>17 December 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Gunmen have killed a policeman in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, a day after three soldiers died in an attack on a military-run school, police said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The gunmen opened fire on a police checkpoint on the outskirts of the city late Friday, resulting in a shootout which left one policeman dead and another seriously wounded, Kano state police spokesman Magaji Majia told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Gaida neighbourhood where the attack took place said the shootout lasted for 30 minutes before the gunmen fled.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s north has been hit by scores of attacks blamed on the Islamist sect Boko Haram, but Kano has not been targeted since the latest round of violence attributed to the group began in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday night gunmen attacked a military-run school outside Kano, the largest city in northern Nigeria, killing at least three air force personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Majia declined to say if Boko Haram was behind the checkpoint attack. No arrests were made. &#8211; <em>ANP\/AFP<\/em><\/p>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 17 December 2011 Gunmen have killed a policeman in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, a day after three soldiers died in an attack on a military-run school, police said Saturday. The gunmen opened fire on a police checkpoint on the outskirts of the city late Friday, resulting in a shootout which left one policeman dead and another seriously wounded, Kano state police spokesman Magaji Majia told AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria: Gunmen Kill Policeman in Northern City - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/18\/nigeria-gunmen-kill-policeman-in-northern-city\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria: Gunmen Kill Policeman in Northern City - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"17 December 2011 Gunmen have killed a policeman in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, a day after three soldiers died in an attack on a military-run school, police said Saturday. 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