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2022-05-15 Africa Subsaharan
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Protests Rock Nigerian City After Blasphemy Killing
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[IRAQSUN] Hundreds of people in Nigeria's northwestern city of Sokoto demonstrated Saturday over the arrest of two students following the murder of a Christian student accused of blasphemy
 ...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
, residents said.
Africa's most populous country is roughly divided between Moslems and Christians, but religious tensions and deadly festivities are not uncommon, particularly in the north.
Deborah Samuel, a student of Shehu Shagari College of Education was stoned to death Thursday and her body was burnt by a mob of Moslem students at the college after she posted something on social media they deemed insulted the Prophet Muhammad.
Police said they made two arrests following the incident and that they had begun a search for other suspects who appeared in footage of the gruesome murder which circulated on social media.
 In the early morning of Saturday, Moslem youths erupted into the streets of the city, lighting bonfires and demanding the release of the two detained suspects despite the earlier deployment of coppers to maintain order, residents said.
Some of the protesters besieged the palace of the Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar, the Sultan of Sokoto and the highest spiritual figure among Moslems in Nigeria who condemned the killing and demanded those involved face justice.
'It was more of a riot by a mob of young men and women who were demanding the release of the two people arrested over the killing of the Christian student,' Sokoto resident Ibrahim Arkilla told AFP.
'The crowd which made bonfires on the streets were also demanding the police stop the manhunt for those identified to have taken part in the killing,' said Arkilla who witnessed the protests.
Protesters besieged the palace of Abubakar chanting 'holy shit! Allahu akbar' or God is Great, said resident Bube Ando who lives near the palace.
'Some among the coppers deployed to protect the palace tried to ask the protesters to leave but they became unruly,' Ando said.
'Policemen and soldiers who stood outside the palace hurled tear gas canisters and had gun sex and succeeded in dispersing the crowd,' he said, without giving details about whether anyone was hurt.
The irate mob retreated downtown where they attempted to loot shops belonging to Christian residents but were dispersed by security patrol teams, said another resident Faruk Danhili.
Saturday afternoon, the Sokoto Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal urged the protesters to return home and announced a curfew.
'Following the sad incident that happened at the Shehu Shagari College of Education on Thursday and sequel to the developments within (Sokoto) metropolis this morning till afternoon... I hereby declare, with immediate effect, a curfew... for the next 24 hours,' he said in a statement.
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