KANO, Nigeria, May 11 (UPI) -- Nigerian authorities said they arrested an entire family and seized a cache of munitions in a raid on a suspected hideout of the Boko Haram insurgency Friday.
Agents of Nigeria's Joint Task Force in Kano said they found ammunition and explosives and also showed reporters seven trucks loaded with empty soft-drink cans they said were intended for use as small bombs, The Nation said.
A suspect identified as Suleiman Mohammed. His wife and five children were also taken into custody, police told Voice of America.
The raid came on the same day a government revenue agent was shot to death by two gunmen on a motorbike as he left his home.
The killers remained at large Friday and it was not certain if the shooting was the work of Boko Haram, an Islamic sect blamed for a rash of bombings in northern Nigeria over the past two years. A series of bombs and shootings in the Kano area in January left about 180 people dead, VOA said.
