Military spokesman Lt. Col. Hassan Ifijeh Mohammed said Monday that soldiers shot the suspected members of Boko Haram in Maiduguri, the sect’s spiritual home. Mohammed said two others were arrested.
The sect has set seven schools ablaze in Maiduguri over the last two weeks.
Boko Haram has been waging an increasingly bloody sectarian fight against weak Nigeria’s central government over Muslim killings in the country, the desire to see Islamic law enacted and to free its detained members. The sect is blamed for killing more than 300 people this year.
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