At least 11 persons, including a police corporal, have been confirmed dead in an attack launched on Kano city in Kano State by yet to be identified gunmen.
The police said on Wednesday that the attack was targetted at its officers and men.
It said that the swift response of security agents led to the killing of 10 of the attackers and the arrest of three of them.
The Commissioner, Kano State Police Command, Ibrahim Idris, said the Dala Divisional Headquarters of the Police, the Jakara Police barracks, Goron Dutse prison yard, 52 Squadron of the mobile police force and a Junior Secondary School at Sabuwar Doka in Ungogo Local Government Area were attacked by the gunmen who also made use of explosives.
Some of the attackers who managed to escape, Idris said, sustained gun wounds.