Nine women shot dead during protest in Nigeria

Nigerian Army soldiers opened fire and killed nine women protesting the army’s handling of communal clashes in the northeastern Adamawa state, witnesses and Amnesty International told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The women were protesting on Monday along a major road in Adamawa’s local government, Lamurde, when the soldiers shot at them after being blocked from passing, witnesses and victims’ relatives told the AP in detail, first…