Police arrested in Nigeria killings

Seventeen Nigerian security officers are reported to have been arrested in the country's north in connection with a series of extra-judicial killings caught on video obtained by Al Jazeera earlier this month. The footage shows officers killing unarmed men, who were bound and forced face-down on the street, in the aftermath of clashes with members of a Muslim group in the country's north. An estimated 1,000 people were killed as Nigerian government forces fought Boko Haram in Borno, Yobe, Kano and Bauchi states in July and August of 2009. But the footage obtained by Al Jazeera shows that many of the deaths occurred only after the fighting was over. Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege, reporting from Abuja on Sunday, said the 17 police officers, who appeared on the tape, were apprehended in Maiduguri, the capital of the northern state of Borno.