Nigeria - Militants Killed in Attack - NYTimes.com Nigerian troops killed eight suspected Islamist militants on Monday who had opened fire on a market in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the military said. Three civilians were wounded, but no soldiers were injured or killed, a military spokesman said. Three bombs that the group had planted in the market were also defused, he said. The authorities blame the Boko Haram group, which wants to impose Shariah law, the legal code of Islam based on the Koran, for attacks that have killed hundreds of people since 2009.