LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The spokesman for Nigeria’s Shiite Muslims says police opened fire on unarmed protesters in the northern city of Kaduna, leaving three dead, as activists accused Nigeria’s military of killing hundreds upon hundreds of Shiites in “a massacre” last weekend in a nearby town.
Spokesman Ibrahim Musa of the Shiite Islamic Movement in Nigeria says 10 people were wounded when police opened fire Tuesday. They were protesting the mass killings and demanding the military release their leader, Ibraheem Zakzaky.
Musa said soldiers on Monday carried away about 200 bodies from around the home of Zakzaky in the town of Zaria, and hundreds more corpses are in the mortuary. Human rights activists said hundreds have died.
Chidi Odinkalu of the Nigerian Human Rights Commission called the attacks “a massacre.”
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