KANO (AFP) - Bomb attacks by suspected militants Sunday left three people dead in northern Nigerias Bauchi State, an official and residents said. The suspected members of the radical Boko Haram sect, armed with heavy machine guns, threw explosives and fired into a police compound in the town of Azare, setting the buildings on fire, residents said. They came in a large convoy, resident Usman Musa told AFP. Musa said he saw the bodies of a soldier, a policeman and a police employee at a medical centre, where another two policemen were being treated for gunshot wounds. The assailants also bombed and robbed two banks in the town, residents said. Militants from Boko Haram, whose name means Western Education Is Sin in the regional Hausa language, have repeatedly targeted police and military, community and religious leaders, as well as politicians, in Nigeria. The radical sect has also claimed responsibility for the August suicide bombing of the UN headquarters in the capital Abuja which killed at least 24 people and coordinated attacks in the countrys northeast on November 4 that left some 150 people dead.