Nigerian authorities say assailants gunned down a prison warden in the same city where multiple blasts killed 15 people just over a week ago.
The Bauchi State police spokesperson Mohammed Barau said gunmen shot Ibrahim Ali in front of his home in Bauchi on Wednesday.
A friend, Abubakar Saliu, said the gunmen got a young boy to call Ali out of his house, a common practice in Nigeria’s Muslim north where men are not allowed to enter unannounced into homes where women live. He was killed on exiting.
The attack comes after three blasts hit a popular drinking spot in Bauchi. A man claiming to speak for a feared Muslim sect known as Boko Haram told the BBC that the group was responsible for the blasts. It is unclear if the sect is also behind the killing of the prison warden.