100 gunmen attack police station in Adamawa, kill four

The Adamawa Police Command on Thursday confirmed the killing of four people by gunmen in Song town, the headquarters of Song Local Government Area.

The spokesman for the command, DSP Mohammed Ibrahim, said the early morning attack claimed the lives of a soldier, a policeman, an old woman and her grandchild.

About 100 gunmen attacked the divisional police headquarters and the local government secretariat in the town of Song, Ibrahim said, adding that the attackers set both buildings on fire.

The fire spread to a house near the police station, where a 64-year-old woman and her four-year-old granddaughter died. A soldier and a police official also were killed.

Ibrahim said the gunmen, who used machine gun and explosives, burnt the Song Divisional Police Station and the Local Government Secretariat.

The Song attack came less than a week after a similar attack in Maiha, Hong and Fufore local government areas of the state.

In Maiha, two people lost their lives in the attack that affected the police station, prison, area court, local education authority, customs post and district head's office.

In Hong, where police repelled the attackers from burning the Divisional Police Station, two people sustained bullet injuries, including the newly elected Hong Local Government Chairman, Alhaji Ahmed Yerima, who was hit by a stray bullet.

Meanwhile, residents of Yola, the state capital, are apprehensive over the development.