Rights group says security forces have killed 9 as Nigeria protests over hardship enter a second day

Associated Press

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A rights group says at least nine people have been killed by security forces in Nigeria during mass protests against the economic crisis gripping the country. 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 military also threatened to intervene as the protests continued on Friday. The protests 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.