The incident occurred at about 4.30pm when traders were about to close for the day’s business.
While condemning such an act, the Northern Christian Association of Nigeria described it as barbaric and wondered why such gruesome and barbaric incident always featured in Kano, a foremost commercial city in the country.
However, Kano, is not the only city or state in the country where people have been killed in the name of religion.
Here are ten gruesome religious killings witnessed in the country since January 2000:
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| 2001 Jos riots (7–17 September 2001) |
The riot followed a proposal to adopt the Sharia law in the state. The proposal led to a violent clash between Christians and Muslims in Kaduna State. It is unclear how many people were killed. It is estimated that between 1,000 to 5,000 people died.
These riots involved Christians and Muslims who clashed violently in Jos, over the appointment of a Muslim politician, Alhaji Muktar Mohammed, as local coordinator of the federal poverty alleviation program. The clashes started on September 7 and lasted nearly two weeks, ending on 17 September.
More than 1,000 people were killed during the riots.
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| Miss World riots in Kaduna (November 22, 2002 |
Miss World riots in Kaduna (November 22, 2002)
The Miss World riots were a series of religiously-motivated riots in Kaduna in November 2002, claiming the lives of more than 200 people.
The controversial Miss World beauty pageant, which was meant to be held in Kaduna, was relocated to London after bloody clashes between Muslims and Christians, caused by what some Muslims deemed to be a “blasphemous” article in a Christian newspaper about the event.
The Miss World riots were part of the Sharia Conflict, that started in 1999 when several predominantly Islamic states in Northern Nigeria decided to introduce Sharia law.
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| Yelwa massacre, Yelwa, Shedam and Kano ( February 2, 2004) |
The so-called Yelwa massacre was actually a series of related incidents of mass violence between Muslims and Christians which took place in Yelwa, Kano State between February and May 2004, killing over 700 people.
The first incident in the series occurred on February 4, 2004 when armed Muslims attacked the Christians of Yelwa, killing more than 78 of them including at least 48 who were worshiping inside a church compound. According to some sources, the signal for the attack was a call for Jihad from the local mosque.
On May 2, 2004 local Christians responded to the February incident by attacking Muslims in Yelwa, resulting in roughly 630 deaths. According to some sources, Muslim girls were forced to eat pork and other foods forbidden to Muslims and some were even raped.
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