Nigerian police contain a Bring Back Our Girls protest outside the Presidential Villa in Abuja in 2016. The Islamic Movement of Nigeria has accused the police of shooting dead six of its supporters in a demonstration today. – EPA pic, September 10, 2019.
NIGERIAN police fired on members of a banned Shia group staging religious processions today, killing six people, the Islamic Movement of Nigeria said. The pro-Iranian group defied a police ban to hold its annual Ashura religious procession, leading to a violent crackdown in several cities, a spokesman said.
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