Saturday 17 January 2015

Five people killed, churches burn as protest rocks Niger.

         At least six churches were razed to the groundwhen stone-throwing demostrators set fire to two churches in Niamey, the Niger capital. Another five people were killed in Niger a day before churches were set ablazed, tribune india reported. Protest broke out after French magazine Charlie Hebdo published Cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. Police fire teagas at gangs of youths, who responded by throwing patrol bombs and erecting barricades of burning tyres, Eyewitness said. Several people were injured. Residents said churches were razed to the ground, christians home looted and French cutural centre attacked during the violence in Zinder on Friday.

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