At least two police officers killed in Nigeria in an attack attributed to the Islamic State

MADRID Jan. 10 (EUROPA PRESS) –

At least two police officers have died as a result of an attack with explosives against a police station in Borno state attributed to the Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA), which has been operating in this area of ​​the northwest of the country for years.

Police spokesperson Olumuyiwa Adejobi has confirmed that the attack took place shortly after midnight on Thursday at a police station in the municipality of Nganzai and that the deceased have been identified as a police inspector and a corporal.

“We have ordered the mobilization of resources and personnel to guarantee that the authors of this nefarious act are found and the full weight of the law falls on them,” the spokesperson said on his social network account X.

ISWA, a splinter of the bloodthirsty jihadist organization Boko Haram, has increased the pace of its attacks in the north of the country since the beginning of the year. On January 4, terrorists killed six soldiers in what the Nigerian military authority described as a failed attack on its troops in Sabon Gari, also in Borno state.