Also Gunmen shot dead two Christian traders on Saturday, in Potiskum.
Lawal on Sunday said that the victims, 20- year-old man and an 18-year- old woman were attacked by the gunmen in their residence at 11 p.m.
Lawal said the gunmen, who were yet to be identified, fled the area shortly after the attack that left some others injured.
He said the police had commenced investigation but no one had been arrested.
It will be recalled that gunmen had on Saturday, Jan. 28, killed a policeman, one Cpl. Farouk Abdullahi, at Rigasa quarters in Kaduna metropolis under similar circumstance.
Abdullahi was shot at about 10 p.m, while returning home from the Command’s headquarters, where he went for an afternoon duty as confirmed by the Police Boss Ballah Nasarawa.
The Christian traders, who were brothers, and owned a prominent shop in the city of Potiskum, which has been repeatedly struck by violence blamed on the Islamist sect.
“The two gunmen dressed in white robes arrived at the shop,” said market trader Kabir Ahmed. “They produced rifles from under their robes and shot the two traders dead.”
A police source who requested anonymity confirmed the killings and that of a Muslim cleric in the city late Friday.
Security sources have previously told said a group of gunmen linked to Boko Haram has carried out targeted killings in the city in recent weeks.
A church guard in Potiskum was shot dead on January 30 after suspected members of the Islamist group on January 11 killed four Christians in the city who, like Saturday’s victims, were members of the Igbo tribe.
The group has also killed Muslim clerics who publicly criticised its extremist tactics, but its recent assaults have primarily been directed at the police and other symbols of authority.
Few analysts see Boko Haram as a cohesive group. It is believed to have a series of factions, including a hardcore Islamist cell.
Boko Haram has killed more than 200 people already this year, according to Human Rights Watch.
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