Why We Attacked Protesting Shiites - Nigerian Police

The police said the protesters were violent and that they recovered improvised petrol-bombs, stones and catapults used by members of the sect to attack police operatives and damage police operational vehicles. Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria are protesting the continued incarceration of their leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky.

Police attack protesting Shiites with tear gas.

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