Angry youths in a vigilante group mobbed and killed a policeman and threatened others on Saturday in retaliation for the killing of one of their members in northeast Nigeria, police and military officials said, causing further friction in an area tense with violence from Islamic militants.
The Civilian Joint Task Force (JTF) was formed by residents to help capture Boko Haram suspects in and around Maiduguri, where the Islamic insurgents formed years ago.
The spokesman of the 7th division of the Nigeria army, Lt Col. Sagir Musa, said he took the attacked policeman, who was drenched in blood, to the police headquarters.
It was not immediately clear if the attacked policeman was the same officer who had shot dead the vigilante.
State police commissioner Lawal Tanko confirmed the incidents and the death of the policeman.
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