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Maiduguri - Bodies littered the streets of Maiduguri on Saturday after Nigerian forces crushed an Islamist sect's uprising and controversially gunned down the movement's leader after his capture.
Dozens of armed soldiers and riot police also guarded strategic points in the northern city of Maiduguri, where troops carried out a brutal assault on the base of the self-styled Taliban earlier this week to crush their uprising.
On Saturday, authorities searched cars and questioned passers-by in the city, where a reporter saw more than 30 decomposing bodies in three different districts.
Security forces this week put down the uprising in four northern states in clashes that killed more than 600 people, according to police and witnesses.
'No stone unturned'
The chief of defence staff, Air Marshal Paul Dike, on a visit to Maiduguri on Friday vowed that "the military will leave no stone unturned in ensuring that no such incidents occur".
"We are up to the task, as we have the capability to crush any breach of Nigerian security," he said after touring Maiduguri, the scene of the worst fighting over the past week.
Security forces' killing of the sect leader, Mohammed Yusuf, has been condemned by human rights groups.
A senior police officer said the leader of the movement, which is also known as Boko Haram, was killed in a shootout as he tried to escape, but another officer said Yusuf had pleaded for mercy before being gunned down.
Information Minister Dora Akunyili said the shooting of Yusuf had prevented violence from spreading across the country's Muslim north.
"It's the best thing that could have happened to Nigeria," she said.
- AFP
Dozens of armed soldiers and riot police also guarded strategic points in the northern city of Maiduguri, where troops carried out a brutal assault on the base of the self-styled Taliban earlier this week to crush their uprising.
On Saturday, authorities searched cars and questioned passers-by in the city, where a reporter saw more than 30 decomposing bodies in three different districts.
Security forces this week put down the uprising in four northern states in clashes that killed more than 600 people, according to police and witnesses.
'No stone unturned'
The chief of defence staff, Air Marshal Paul Dike, on a visit to Maiduguri on Friday vowed that "the military will leave no stone unturned in ensuring that no such incidents occur".
"We are up to the task, as we have the capability to crush any breach of Nigerian security," he said after touring Maiduguri, the scene of the worst fighting over the past week.
Security forces' killing of the sect leader, Mohammed Yusuf, has been condemned by human rights groups.
A senior police officer said the leader of the movement, which is also known as Boko Haram, was killed in a shootout as he tried to escape, but another officer said Yusuf had pleaded for mercy before being gunned down.
Information Minister Dora Akunyili said the shooting of Yusuf had prevented violence from spreading across the country's Muslim north.
"It's the best thing that could have happened to Nigeria," she said.
- AFP
