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A sustained gun battle broke out between Nigerian security forces and suspected Islamist militants in Damaturu Thursday, and several explosions were heard. Then Friday suspected sect members opened fire on a group of policemen shortly after Friday prayers in the city, killing four, local police officials said. Police commissioner Suleiman Lawal of Yobe state, of which Damaturu is the capital, told Reuters a dusk to dawn curfew had been imposed on the city. "The situation is now calm. We lost seven security men and twelve members of the Boko Haram sect were killed in the shoot out last night," he said. "Though you cannot predict members of the sect, our men and the military are combat ready. Only one civilian was killed (in the violence on Thursday)." Confrontations between security forces and the Boko Haram sect have become increasingly frequent in the past couple of weeks, as the north's simmering conflict escalates, though the insurgency remains low level and sporadic. Nigerian police arrested 14 suspected members of Boko Haram and seized explosives after a gun battle left four militants and three policemen dead in the city of Kano last weekend. Lawan said the fighting in Damaturu broke out after his men raided a suspected Boko Haram hideout. Damaturu was the scene of the most deadly Boko Haram assault to date, when 65 people were killed in a wave of shootings and bombings on November 5 that left churches, police stations and mosques reduced to smoldering rubble. At least 11 people were killed in a separate shootout in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, Boko Haram's heartland, on Thursday, an official at the morgue said. Mortuary attendant Bab Aminu said he had received the bodies overnight. Boko Haram, whose name roughly translates as "Western learning is forbidden" has been blamed for scores of shootings and bombings in the north, including a spate of attacks in the past few weeks across the region. 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