Gunmen believed to be associates of the Nigerian active Islamist camp Boko Haram accept attacked several targets in the country's Yobe state, letters say.
Explosives were befuddled at a badge base and a coffer in the boondocks of Geidam, 100 afar (160km) from the accompaniment capital, Damaturu.
Geidam is the hometown of Yobe accompaniment governor Ibrahim Geidam.
Witnesses said humans were trapped in their homes during the attack. It was cryptic whether there were casualties.
State badge abettor Sulaiman Lawal accepted the city-limits was beneath advance on Saturday night but did not accommodate any added details, the Associated Press reports.
The men, armed with Kalashnikov rifles according to Agence France Presse, accursed into the air afore authoritative off with money taken from the vaults of the bank.
"The attackers who are from all break associates of Boko Haram came in a ample amount and attacked the badge base with explosives and gunshots and burnt it down", one resident, Abba Kashim, told the account bureau by buzz from the town.
Another resident, Umar Maina, told AFP there had been "incessant gunshots" and that a bar had aswell been attacked.
He said the men were on their way to the town's prison.
Earlier this ages Boko Haram agitated out an advance in Damaturu which dead added than 100 people.
In August it austere the UN address in Abuja, killing 24 people.
Boko Haram agency "Western apprenticeship is forbidden". Parts of the accumulation say they wish Sharia, Islamic law, added broadly activated beyond Nigeria, but correspondents say a lot of factions are focused on bounded issues.
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