Witnesses said that on Wednesday, the attackers stormed the market, shot two traders dead, and fled, while shooting wildly into the air, the Associated Press reported.
Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, a Nigerian Army spokesman, accused the militants of the attack and said that the military had killed one suspected member of the group and arrested two others, while repelling a Wednesday attack on a military post in the city, the militants’ home base.
Last week, gunmen killed seven people, including two police guards, in two separate attacks blamed on the extremist group.
The group has taken responsibility for a number of deadly gun and bomb attacks in several parts of Nigeria since 2009.
Human rights groups report that violent actions by Boko Haram since mid-2009 have claimed more than 1,000 lives, including over 300 this year alone.
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