ABUJA, June 21 (Xinhua) -- The Nigerian police on Wednesday confirmed two people were killed in a suspected ambush by terror group Boko Haram in the northeastern state of Borno.
A police sergeant and a truck driver, who was conveying drugs to a camp of internally displaced persons, were killed following the attack along the Maiduguri-Damboa highway in the restive Nigerian state, according to Borno State police chief Damian Chukwu.
Chukwu said the deceased were in a convoy of about 200 vehicles, among which included an 80-seater bus conveying a newly deployed Mobile Police Unit.
Six of the mobile policemen on the bus were injured, the senior police officer told Xinhua.
"We got information that they were ambushed around Abari-Dalwa village, about 30 kilometers from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital," he added.
Boko Haram has been blamed for the deaths of more than 20,000 people and displacing of 2.3 million others in Nigeria since their insurgency started in 2009.
