Nigeria, Boko Haram claims attacks in Sokoto and Zaria

(AGI) Abuja, August 1- The Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram claimed responsibility for Monday's attacks in Nigeria. The attacks targeted 2 police stations in Sokoto and the residence of Vice President Namadi Sambo in Zaria, two cities in the north of Nigeria. A spokesmand for the terrorist group, Abu Qaqa said, "We wish to express our profound gratitude to all-powerful Allah for having given us the opportunity to fully carry out the launching of simultaneous attacks in Sokoto," seat of the spiritual and charismatic leader if Nigerian Islam, Mohammed Sa'ad Abubakar IV. It has been the presence of the Sultanate itself in Sokoto, according to experts, which has kept Boko-Haram away from the city which has never been attacked by the terrorist group. Monday, in two almost simultaneous suicide attacks, besides the three bombers, two police officers were killed, while over thirty were wounded. "We are responsible," Boko Haram's claim continued, "for the attacks on the residence of Namadi Sambo as well." Sambo is originally from Zaria, the city in the northern state of Kaduna. The attack was carried out by an armed command which fired on the guard posts of the residence (empty at the moment of the attack) killing one person and wounding two policemen. Tuesday Nigerian police forces arrested two of the three terrorists suspected of the attack on the Vice President's villa. In another anti-terrorism operation in the north-eastern state of Borno, epicentre for Boko Haram, the Nigerian army, working with the armed forces of neighboring Chad and Cameroon, killed two terrorists and seized munitions and weapons, including ten grenade-launchers. (AGI) . .