10:57 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nGunmen from Nigeria’s radical Islamist sect Boko Haram have killed a nurse who was playing cards in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, according to police.<\/p>\n
Police said four people were also wounded in the shooting at a bus stop in the city.<\/p>\n
The gunmen killed another person in a separate attack in Maiduguri, police added.<\/p>\n
Boko Haram, which is fighting for Islamic rule, bombed the police headquarters in Abuja last week.<\/p>\n
A least eight people were killed in the bombing, local media reported.<\/p>\n
The BBC’s Bilkisu Babangida in Maiduguri says the nurse was killed in a drive-by shooting.<\/p>\n
Police meeting<\/span><\/p>\nIt seems the gunmen were targeting a policeman who usually played cards at the bus stop, but he was not there at the time, our reporter says.<\/p>\n
Nigeria’s police chief Hafiz Abubakar Ringim is to hold a crucial meeting on Tuesday with police commissioners from across Nigeria’s 36 states to discuss the threat posed by Boko Haram, police spokesman Olusola Amore told the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for Boko Haram said Mr Ringim had been the target of the bombing at the police headquarters.<\/p>\n
Boko Haram has carried out a wave of attacks in Nigeria since 2009.<\/p>\n
It says it is fighting for Islamic rule, and campaigns against all political and social activity associated with the West.<\/p>\n
Boko Haram’s leader Mohammed Yusuf and several hundred of his supporters were killed by security forces in Maiduguri after the group attacked police stations.<\/p>\n
After a lull, their attacks have intensified in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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