Nigeria, June 23 -- Amnesty International has called for an independent investigation of the killing of a teacher and mother of five by a mob in Kaduna State, on Sunday.

The teacher, identified as Ummulkhairi, was lynched in Mararaban Jos, a community along the Kaduna-Zaria highway, after being falsely accused of attempting to kidnap children.

Witnesses said the victim had left her home in New Mararaban Jos to attend an Islamic lecture at Madrasat Tashiyhul Iman, a school founded by Islamic scholar Malama Mardiyya in the old Mararaba area.

According to the accounts, Ms Ummulkhairi had stopped to ask some children for directions to the venue when some women reportedly accused her of attempting to kidnap the children.

She was subsequent...