Rights group says security forces have killed 9 during protests over Nigeria’s economic crisis

Associated Press

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A rights group says at least 9 people were killed by security forces in Nigeria during mass protests against Nigeria’s economic crisis. Amnesty International’s Nigeria office cited accounts from witnesses in its statement Friday. Authorities said a police officer was also killed and others injured, while four protesters were killed by a bomb. Hundreds were arrested in the protests that triggered curfews in several states. The protests that continued on Friday were mainly over food shortages and alleged bad governance in Africa’s most populous country whose citizens are some of the world’s poorest and hungriest people, despite being one of the continent’s top oil producers.