Basic services crisis turns deadly in Kaduna
At least four people have been killed in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna during a violent protest over a three-year power blackout in a poor part of the city.
“I saw four dead bodies including that of a pregnant woman that were shot by the police trying to quell the riots,” Ahmad Abdulkarim, a resident, told IRIN by telephone from Kaduna.
Violence erupted on 15 January in Sabon Tasha, a sprawling neighbourhood of some 35,000 residents on the outskirts of the city.
A witness, Sahabi Idris, said hundreds of youths turned out to protest the lack of electricity in the area. “They set up barricades and burned government buildings and vehicles.”