Nigeria: Dozens of policemen killed in a ambush by Ombatse militia fighters
Detectives are investigating if the gunmen were linked to the country’s al-Qaeda offshoot.
A detachment of 60 policemen were on their way to arrest the leader of the Ombatse militia when the group’s fighters launched their attack.
At least 23 officers were killed and many were still missing, said Abayomi Akeremale, the police commissioner of Nasarawa State, which lies on the nominal border between Nigeria’s Christian south and its Muslim north.
Separate reports said that 46 people were killed, but they could not immediately be verified.