Maiduguri, Nigeria - Police say that suspected members of a radical sect have killed the brother of the second highest figure in Nigeria's Muslim community.
Borno State police spokesman Lawal Abdullahi said Tuesday that gunmen shot dead Abba Anas Umar on Monday evening in front of his house in the northeast city of Maiduguri.
Umar, a 30-year-old security officer, was the brother of the Shehu of Borno, who is second only to the Sultan of Sokoto, Nigerian Muslims' spiritual head.
The police blame a radical Muslim sect locally known as Boko Haram for Umar's killing.
Boko Haram members have targeted security officers, political leaders and clerics in a string of killings in the area over the last year.
They also have attacked churches and engineered a massive prison break.