KANO: Police have arrested 92 suspected members of a radical Islamist sect in raids after a series of attacks that killed eight people in northern Maiduguri city, a police chief said Thursday."We have arrested 92 suspected members of the sect in raids we carried out on many parts of the city Wednesday through Thursday in connection with yesterday's attacks, including a man in his 70s we believe is the sect's major financier," Borno state police commissioner Mohammed Jinjiri Abubakar told media on the phone from Maiduguri.
Eight people including three policemen were killed in five separate attacks by gunmen suspected of being Boko Haram members in the city late Wednesday, military and police officials said.
Policemen raided the house of the sect's alleged bankroller where materials linking him to the sect were found.
The materials found included chemicals used in bomb making, audiotapes of the late sect leader's preaching and machetes, Abubakar said.
Abubakar said the suspects had been taken to the police headquarters in Nigeria's capital Abuja for further interrogation.
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