Police: 2 protesters wounded in police altercation in Nigeria on 4th day of fuel protests

Police in northern Nigeria say they are investigating the alleged police shooting of two people participating in nationwide protests over gas prices.

Kano state police spokesman Magaji Musa Majiya said the men were wounded Thursday on their way to a demonstration in Nigeria’s second-largest city of Kano.

He says they were part of a large crowd that passed through a largely Christian community amid rising religious tensions in the mostly Muslim state.

He says one man was wounded in the buttocks; the other, in the leg.

Tens of thousands have protested across the country daily since a national strike started Monday over the government’s removal of a long-cherished subsidy that kept gasoline cheap in the oil-producing nation. Protests have left at least 11 people dead and dozens injured.






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