MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist gunmen opened fire on residents of a market town in northeast Nigeria, killing 18 people in one of the deadliest attacks for several weeks, a local government official said on Tuesday.
The attack late on Monday apparently targeted local hunters in Damboa who sell bush meat from animals such as monkeys and pigs, which strict Muslims are forbidden to eat, the local government leader told journalists.
"Gunmen suspected to be members of BH (Islamist sect Boko Haram) came to the town market and shot dead 13 local hunters on the spot while five others died from their injuries at the hospital," Alhaji Abba Ahmed said.
"They came to the market in a Volkswagen Golf car, carried out the operation and left."
Northern Nigeria has seen a surge in violence in the past week as Boko Haram intensifies operations. Damboa is in the remote northeast, near the borders with Niger, Cameroon and Chad, the sect's heartland.
Boko Haram's long-bearded members practice a strict Wahhabist version of Islam that sees anyone who disagrees with it as infidels.
Its fighters say they want to carve an Islamic state out of Nigeria, a country of 170 million people split roughly evenly between Christians and Muslims.
The insurgency is seen as the top security threat to Africa's leading energy producer.
(Reporting by Ibrahim Mshelizza; Writing by Tim Cocks; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
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