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| Church Burnt, Tear Gas Fired As Protest Hits Potiskum Over Fatal Market Attack by jmaine: 7:37pm On May 07, 2012 |
What has church and school got to this with this protest POTISKUM (AFP) – Crowds of protesters took to the streets of the city of Potiskum Monday over a deadly market attack last week, with a church and classrooms burnt and police firing tear gas. More than a thousand protesters, including traders and clerics, took part in the demonstration in the northeastern city hit by a bomb-and-gun attack Wednesday night at a busy cattle market that killed at least 34 people. Bonfires were set amid the protests and a crowd of youths also vandalised military checkpoints while heckling soldiers manning them in anger over troops’ failure to foil the attack, an AFP correspondent reported. At least one church and a number of classrooms were burnt by what police described as “miscreants” who took advantage of the protest. Police fired tear gas and shot into the air as demonstrators sought to march to the palace of the town’s traditional ruler and moved closer to regional police headquarters, witnesses said. No one was reported wounded. “Some miscreants took advantage of the peaceful demonstration to go on a rampage,” said Moses Onireti, police commissioner for Yobe state, where Potiskum is located. “They burnt a church and three blocks of classrooms in a primary school nearby. We have arrested three suspects in the attacks. The police have succeeded in restoring normalcy.” Protesters expressed frustration with authorities’ inability to stop violence in the city. “The government must as a matter of urgency fish out the perpetrators of this crime and ensure that they are appropriately punished. This is our demand,” a protester told AFP. Demonstrators also held prayers at the scene of the killings |
| Re: Church Burnt, Tear Gas Fired As Protest Hits Potiskum Over Fatal Market Attack by jmaine: 7:38pm On May 07, 2012 |
So we finally get to see a protest when loads of their kin were murdered . . .They should direct their anger to the snakes living among them causing carnage |
| Re: Church Burnt, Tear Gas Fired As Protest Hits Potiskum Over Fatal Market Attack by otokx(m): 8:07pm On May 07, 2012 |
As usual they burn churches and schools then say its not religious. |
| Re: Church Burnt, Tear Gas Fired As Protest Hits Potiskum Over Fatal Market Attack by pat077: 6:27am On May 08, 2012 |
Whenever christains are d victims there won't b any protest bcoz its thier cattle market they're nw protestin. Foolish people thier mosque shld b d next target. |
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