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Abuja, 27 Nov - (ANA) - Two police officers have been killed when a "large number of gunmen" attacked a Nigerian police base in the capital, Abuja, enabling five suspected robbers to escape, police say. A police statement said the attack was repelled but that 30 detainees escaped, 25 of whom were recaptured. Suspected robbers and militants from the Boko Haram Islamist group are often held at the police base. No group has said it carried out the attack Boko Haram wants to establish Islamic law in Nigeria and has killed hundreds of people this year, mostly in the mainly Muslim north. The attack on the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars) headquarters in Abuja comes a day after a double suicide bombing killed 11 people in a church inside a military barracks in Kaduna state, north of the capital. Correspondents say the high-level security breaches are embarrassing for the government. Many Nigerians are still shocked by Sunday's bombing, wondering how the attackers could have entered the barracks, which houses Nigeria's elite military training centre, without some inside help, he adds. The Sars base is near several government buildings and security is normally extremely tight in the area.(ANA)