12 Troops Sentenced To Death For Mutiny

Abuja - A court martial has sentenced 12 Nigerian
soldiers fighting Islamic extremists to death by
firing squad for mutiny and attempted murder of
their commanding officer.
In a decision announced early on Tuesday, a
military tribunal found 12 soldiers guilty and five
others innocent. All the accused denied the
charges.
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The soldiers accused their commanders of
conspiring to kill fellow troopers after a convoy
was ambushed on 13 May on a road frequently
attacked by the Islamic extremist group Boko
Haram.
They were driving from Chibok, the north-eastern
town from which more than 270 schoolgirls were
kidnapped a month earlier.
When the soldiers' bodies were brought to north-
eastern Maiduguri city, the surviving soldiers
revolted, throwing stones at their commanding
officer and then shooting at him. The officer took
refuge in an armoured vehicle and was unharmed.