A woman found a horrible death, burned alive by a multitude of Muslims after being accused of allegedly damaging the prophet Mohammed, the most sacred form of Islam, in the state of Niger, in the central part of Nigeria, the state said.

The woman “burned alive” on Saturday in a “group attack” after allegedly making blasphemous statements about the Prophet in the Kasuan Garba community in the Mariga area, Washu Abionun, a police spokesman in the state of Niger, explained.

Mr Abionun said that a woman was a saleswoman of various foods, known as Amagi and came from the state of Katsina, in northwestern Nigeria.

“Police condemn every act of self -jurisdiction and calls on the population to remain calm” As he searches for the perpetrators, the spokesman added.

The blasphemy lays the death penalty under Islamic law – or Sharia -, applied in 12 states with a majority of Muslim population, at the same time with common law.

In many cases, blasphemy accused have been killed by mobs of crazy citizens without any criminal proceedings.

Religious tensions due to the atmosphere of mutual distrust and suspicion are generally common among the Christians and the Muslims of Nigeria, where about 220 million inhabitants share almost half of the two religions.

Both Christians and Muslims have become victims of group violence for alleged blasphemy.

In June 2023, Osman Bouda, a butcher in the Municipality of Sokoto, in the northern part of the country, was stoned to death for allegedly blasphemy, after Deborah Samuel, a Christian student, was killed by Muslims.

In recent years, two Muslim spiritual and Muslim singer Gospel have been sentenced to death for blasphemy by courts of Sharia in Kano, the largest city in northern Nigeria. The sentences have not been executed, as the convicts have appealed.