By Lanre Ola and Ahmed Kingimi
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) -
Suspected Boko Haram militants killed two people and wounded six others
in an ambush on a police convoy in northeast Nigeria's Borno state on
Tuesday, a police spokesman said.
Borno has been the state worst
hit by the eight-year insurgency by Boko Haram that has killed more
than 20,000 people and forced some 2.7 million people to flee their
homes in its bid to create an Islamic caliphate.
The raid was the
latest in a spate of attacks in the state, birthplace of the
insurgency, over the last two weeks. Suicide bombings killed 12 people
on Monday and 14 people died in an attack on state capital Maiduguri on
June 7.
Borno state police spokesman Damian Chukwu said vehicles
including a police patrol convoy and a funeral procession were ambushed
on a road around 30 kilometers from Maiduguri. Two people were killed - a
policeman and a commercial driver.
Boko Haram has been pushed
out of most of the territory that it controlled in early 2015 - a swathe
of land around the size of Belgium - by Nigeria's army and troops from
neighboring countries.
But insurgents continue to carry out suicide bombings and raids in northeast Nigeria, Cameroon and Niger.
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