The mob burns the woman to death by claiming rowing against the Prophet Muhammad

Police said that a woman was burned to death by a mob in Niger state in northern Nigeria, after she was accused of blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad.

Police condemned the killing of the woman – who was identified in the local media as a food seller named Ami – as “the justice of the forest”, saying that the investigation was under detention and the trial of the perpetrators.

Local media quoted eyewitnesses as saying that a man had proposed a joking marriage to the seller, and considered her response to some people in the region.

“Unfortunately, this led to the mob attack, and (she) was discontent before the security teams were strengthened to the scene,” said Wadio Abiudon, a spokesman for the state police.

He appealed to the public to remain calm and not to take the law with their hands after the killing on Saturday in the city of Kaswan Ghariba.

Such killings are not common in northern Nigeria, where rowing is a criminal crime under the law of Islam (Sharia), which works alongside secular law in 12 Islamic countries mainly.

At least two other people have been executed because of such accusations in the past three years, as critics have indicated that it is not done enough to prevent the killings that targeted both Muslims and Christians.

In 2022, The student, Deborah Samuel, was beaten and burned In the state of Sokuto after accusing it of making rowing comments.

Last year, Othman Bouda was stoned to death in the same state under similar circumstances.

Although the Nigeria constitution supports freedom of expression, the country is still deeply divided into issues of faith and justice.

In the past, the Nigerian Supreme Court ruled that blasphemy allegations should be proven in a legal court.