(MENAFN- Gulf Times) Gunfire at an opposition election rally in southern Nigeria's Rivers state on Tuesday killed one police officer and injured four others, while a reporter covering the event was stabbed, a candidate for governor said.

"Five police officers were shot. One of them is dead and four are lying in critical condition at this hospital," said Dakuku Peterside of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who had planned to address the rally in the town of Okrika.
Peterside and a source at the private Channels television network said its reporter at the scene, Charles Erukaa, was stabbed and was being taken to a hospital.

Two dead in suicide blast

Two people were killed in a suicide blast at a restaurant in the northeast Nigerian city of Potiskum, a police officer, rescuer and a hospital nurse told AFP.
A bomber blew himself up inside Al-Amir restaurant, a popular chain in northern Nigeria, at about 4:40 pm (1540 GMT), killing the manager and a steward. Thirteen staff and customers were seriously injured.
"We evacuated three dead bodies which included the bomber and two victims to the hospital," said a police officer involved in the rescue operation. Another rescue worker and a nurse at the Potiskum General Hospital confirmed the toll.