Amnesty International urges probe into reckless military gunfire following Maiduguri girl’s death

Amnesty International has called connected Nigerian authorities to urgently analyse what it described arsenic the reckless usage of firearms by subject unit that led to the decease of a 14-year-old miss successful Maiduguri, Borno State.

The incidental occurred connected Saturday, April 4, erstwhile the secondary schoolhouse pupil was struck by a stray slug portion wrong her home.

Reports bespeak that the slug was fired by subject unit who were allegedly shooting into the aerial during a wedding solemnisation astatine a adjacent lawsuit centre.

Reacting successful a station connected its authoritative X grip connected Sunday, Amnesty International said the sidesplitting was avoidable and indispensable not spell without accountability.

“The Nigerian authorities indispensable analyse the reckless usage of firearms by the subject that killed a miss successful Maiduguri, Borno State,” the organisation said.

A household person of the unfortunate explained that the teen was not anyplace adjacent the solemnisation erstwhile the calamity occurred.

“She lived successful the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) quarters with her household and was wrong her location erstwhile the calamity occurred,” the root said. “She had conscionable finished applying henna for her parent and herself, joyfully preparing for a household wedding scheduled for that aforesaid day.”

The miss was aboriginal buried connected Sunday greeting astatine the Maiduguri cemetery, arsenic household members and frien...