News update: MAIDUGURI BOMB BLAST UPDATE: Military Repel Boko Haram Attack, Arrest Five

Five sect members have been reportedly arrested and a female student of University of Maiduguri shot in today's attack on Maiguduri, Borno State capital.

Two hours after the first triple assault on Giwa barracks in Maiduguri by suspected insurgents, gun shots are still being heard from a distance from the GRA police station.

Fighter planes of the Nigerian air force which responded with record speed according to one security personnel seem to be dropping bombs in a staccato manner returning back to base after the operation.

Meanwhile five members of the sect have been caught close to the University of Maiduguri where they have been said to have stormed the town very close to the University simultaneously.

Students living around Barma road said a stray bullet hit a female student who was going to school about the same time when the others stormed the town from the University side.

Although no death figure has been confirmed by the University, a mass communications student Mayum Etim told The Nation on phone that "It was correct that the insurgents stormed an area close to our school but they did not enter the campus."

Sahara Reporters provides that one military source counted 22 corpses lying around in from of the barrack.

The dead were members of the sect rounded up and killed by soldiers at an army base as they prepared to flee after the attack.

Several soldiers are said to have been killed and injured, but the military authorities would not reveal the number of dead or injured soldiers in the attack.