Shiite leader's daughter narrates how Army killed her brothers

Ibraheem said “I am recording this message to you because we understand many members of the Movement do not understand what actually happened when Shaikh Zakzaky arrested.”

Adding that “We were at home with my younger brothers, when the soldiers entered, we are in our room then, and the soldiers entered and started shooting sporadically. My younger brothers; Hammad, Ali and Humaid were all killed in cold blood on our own eyes. We understand that the Nigerian soldiers are trying to cover and hide these atrocities, because they are afraid of what it will result to, that they are thinking aftermath of the massacre. Surely, the Nigerian army killed my three younger brothers; Hammad and Humaid they shot on their forehead, surely they have been killed.”

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The Shiite leader’s daughter also said “However they shot my mother in her stomach and leg, and god’s willing, it is not that too hard to her, because even she was shot, she still walked with the bullet (in her leg and stomach). Before we left the place, they beat her up (our mother), at the time we were with some of the sisters. The sisters that we are together, the soldiers all pulled their veils, and they all beat us. After all, they took us from our house to Barracks, and then disunite us with Shaikh Zakzaky.”

The Nigerian Army accused members of the Shiite sect of attempting to assassinate the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai.

You will recall that the leader of Shiite Muslims in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El Zakzaky was reportedly flown to France to receive treatment for injuries he sustained during a clash between the group and the Nigerian Army in December 2015.