(CNN) Protests against police brutality in Lagos turned bloody on Tuesday despite a state-wide curfew, with eyewitnesses telling CNN that multiple demonstrators have been shot by soldiers. Tuesday saw the state governor impose a 24-hour curfew and deploy anti-riot police to the city. One witness at the protests, Akinbosola Ogunsanya, said the shooting began after the lights were turned off at the Nigerian city's Lekki tollgate. "Members of the Nigerian army pulled up on us and they started firing," he said. "They were shooting, they were firing straight, directly at us, and a lot of people got hit.

Source: CNN October 20, 2020 23:18 UTC