Nigeria's military says one person was killed as soldiers raided a suspected hideout of members of a radical Islamist sect.

Brig. Gen. Iliyasu I. Abba told journalists on Tuesday the raid happened in the city of Kano that morning. Abba said soldiers also arrested three women and two children in their operation, while one suspect escaped.

Gunfire echoed around the Kano neighborhood where soldiers launched their attack early Tuesday morning.

Abba said authorities believe the hideout was used by gunmen from the radical Islamist sect Boko Haram who launched an attack Sunday that killed at least 16 people on a university campus in Kano where church services were being held.

Boko Haram is waging an increasingly violent sectarian fight with Nigeria's weak central government.