Authorities say suspected gunmen from a radical Islamist sect have shot and killed a secret police officer in northeast Nigeria.
The attack happened Monday in Maiduguri, where the sect known as Boko Haram once had its main mosque.
Witnesses said the officer of the State Security Service, the country’s secret police, was killed while getting a haircut.
Ahmed Abdullahi, the head of State Security Service in Borno state, confirmed the killing Monday.
Boko Haram is waging an increasingly bloody fight against Nigeria’s weak central government. Violence blamed on the sect has killed more than 370 people this year alone, according to an Associated Press count.