Islamist sect leader in Nigeria killed in custody (AP)

Posted under World on Thursday, July 30th, 2009 at 4:29 pm | Comments are off for this article

A Nigerian police officer looks at the body of an alleged self-styled Nigerian Taliban in the northern city of Maiduguri. Troops pounded parts of a northern Nigeria city overnight after reinforcements were sent in to help rout fleeing members of an extremist sect whose base they razed, witnesses said.(AFP/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AP – The leader of the Islamist sect blamed for days of violence in northern Nigeria has been shot and killed while in police custody, officials said Thursday.


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