There was pandemonium in Bakin Ruwa area of the Nnamdi Azikwe expressway, bypass of Kaduna State capital on Tuesday, as Police and members of the Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky led Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) clashed.

The IMN group of the Shi’ite Islamic sect were gathering to proceed on Ashura Day procession when the incident happened in the early hours of Tuesday.

The Nation gathered that Shi’ites had planned to come out as early as 6:00 am to beat the security agents to the plan to stop them from the procession.

However, the police who relied on intelligence report quickly moved to the scene and dispersed the gathering of IMN members.

The Shi’ites, however, claimed that three of their members were killed in the process.

One of the IMN leaders, Alliyu Umar who spoke to The Nation said, the Read More