ISIS-linked Boko Haram fanatics ‘are plotting attacks on British and US embassies in Nigeria’ as terror atrocity is foiled

AN Islamist attack on the British and US embassy in Nigeria was thwarted at the last moment, authorities have revealed.

Five militants from terror group Boko Haram planned to assault the compounds in capital Abuja.

Nigerian authorities have now warned that the consulates are in the sights of extremists in West Africa.

A statement from Nigerian security forces said: "The group had perfected plans to attack the UK and American Embassies and other western interests in Abuja."

The plotters were arrested on March 25 and 26.

Another Islamist is believed to have confessed details of the plot.

The British High Commission and U.S. embassy in Abuja did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Boko Haram is allied with ISIS extremists in Syria and Iraq.

In 2011 the group attacked the U.N.'s Nigeria headquarters in Abuja with a car bomb that detonated in the reception area, killing at least 21 people.