Nigeria: Deaths as Kano police clash with Shia Muslim

At least nine people have been killed and several wounded during clashes between Nigerian police and Shia Muslims at a religious procession in the northern state of Kano, according to witnesses and authorities.

The violence broke out onMonday during a march of thousands of members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) from Kano city to Zaria in neighbouring Kaduna state - where they had been banned - for the Ashura religious day of mourning.
It was the latest in a series of incidents involving the group.

A judicial inquiry in August reported that 347 IMN members were killed and buried in mass graves after clashes with the army in December 2015.