Dead bodies were Evacuted Shi'ite were Evacuted today by Nigerian Army

Nigerians army has on Monday, December 14, according to Naij evacuated the bodies of Shi’ite members that were killed in two-day of clashes with troops in northern Zaria.

Shiite leader, Ibrahim Zakzaky

The troops had carried out crackdowns on Saturday and early hour of Sunday against the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) and its leader, Ibrahim Zakzaky, who  was reportedly arrested.

The spokesman of IMN, Ibrahim Musa said: “We have reports that bodies of our members killed outside the house of our leader are being evacuated in trucks by soldiers,” IMN spokesman Ibrahim Musa told AFP.  Musa also said Zakzaky had been arrested. “Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky was arrested this morning in his demolished home by soldiers where he had been holed up in a room that was spared from the fire that gutted the house from grenades.”

See Picture:Some Nigerians In London Protest Over Killing Of Shiites in Zaria

The IMN, it was learnt seek to establish an Islamic state using an Iranian-styled revolution method, had been at loggerheads with Nigeria’s secular authorities, which had led to this current confrontations.

It leader was said to have been previously incarcerated for alleged incitement and subversion, Vanguard reports.

“We can’t give a precise figure of the deaths but it is huge given the number of the members that answered the call to protect the house from the invading soldiers,” he said.  He said the group’s leader had been unable to leave the house “because of the gunshot wounds he sustained in the indiscriminate fire soldiers opened on the house and his followers who tried to protect it,” he said.

“We gathered he was taken to Kaduna (70 kilometres away). We got in touch with the medical doctor that is treating him who confirmed to us that our leader is critically ill from four gunshot wounds he sustained,” he said. “He was shot at four times, this the doctor confirmed,” Musa told AFP. Witnesses also spoke of soldiers removing bodies around Zakzaky’s house.

See Pictures 7 People were Killed yesterday in Zaria

“This morning, soldiers started evacuating corpses of followers of Zakzaky in trucks for possible disposal.

“A large number of his followers were gunned down around his house on Saturday through Sunday morning where they had congregated to protect the house from military invasion,” the sect spokesman said.

Meanwhile, new information from Sahara Reporters indicated that the death toll from the attack by the army on Shi’ites had risen to about 100.

Nigerian troops had reportedly killed a wife and son of the Nigeria Shi’ite leader, Sheik Ibraheem Zakzaky, in an overnight raid that led to the deaths of many people in Zaria, Kaduna state.