Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed for "understanding and calm" after protests against police brutality in Lagos turned bloody on Tuesday and Wednesday, with eyewitnesses and Amnesty International telling CNN that multiple demonstrators had been shot dead at Lekki toll gate and another site by Army soldiers, who then took the bodies away.
Protesters have been rallying across Nigeria to demand police reform and bring the government's attention to recurring police brutality.
Protests against police brutality in Lagos turned bloody on Tuesday despite a state-wide curfew, with eyewitnesses telling CNN that multiple demonstrators have been shot by soldiers.
Protests against police brutality in Lagos, Nigeria, turned bloody despite a state-wide curfew. Eyewitnesses told CNN that multiple demonstrators were shot by soldiers. CNN's Eleni Giokos reports.
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