revealed that 347 Shiites killed by Nigerian
troops during the clash with the Army on
December 12th 2015, were buried in mass graves
after members of their family did not come for
their corpse two days after the attack.
Secretary to the State Government Balarabe
Lawal made the revelation while speaking at
the Public Hearing of the Judicial Commission
of Inquiry into the killings.
According to Lawal, 191 corpses were taken
from the Nigerian Army Depot in Zaria and
buried in a mass grave in the Mando area of
Kaduna State while another 156 corpses from
Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital in
Zaria were also buried in the Mando area.
He added that 40 Nigerian military men
supervised the mass burial which was led by a
major in the army. Also testifying before the
commission was the Director-General of the
Kaduna State Interfaith Agency, Nnamdi Musa
who stated that the mass burials took place
on December 14th and 15th and was authorized
by the Kaduna Chief Magistrate’s Court
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