A Nigerian court has released five men who were charged with the killing of a Christian women who had been accused of blasphemy.Bridget Patience Agbahime, a street vendor in the northern city of Kano, was beaten to death in June after a young man said that she had insulted the prophet Muhammad.
Friends of the victim denied the charge.
But she was beaten to death by an aroused mob.
Five people were arrested by the police in connection with the murder of the woman.
On November 3, the court in Kano acquitted the five suspects with full formula.
On May 29 in Pandogari, in the Nigerian Atate of Niger, a 24-year-old street vendor, Methodus Chimaije Emmanuel had been killed in a similar way, also after being accused of blasphemy,
The two brutal murders were condemned by the largest Islamic Association of Nigeria, the Jama'atu Nasril Islam, whose leader, the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa'ad Abubakar, had declared: "These terrible incidents are to be condemned and are to be seen as criminal acts, perpetrated by criminals".