JUST IN: Shiite members descend on National Assembly, shoot Policeman, Civil Defence

Hundreds of members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, also known as Shiites, today stormed the National Assembly complex and shot a policeman and a civil defence officer.

The gates to the National Assembly have been shut.

Information reaching us has it that the dreaded Shiite members overpowered policemen at the first gate of the assembly complex, collected one of their guns and shot at the two security operatives.

The protesting group reportedly vandalised the gate house, burnt three vehicles and destroyed many others.

Attempts by armed policemen to stop the followers of detained Ibrahim Yaqoub el ZakZaky, the founder of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) to cross the second gate was challenged by the sect members who hauled stones and other dangerous objects at the security personnel.

The sect members unleashed terror on other security operatives when tear-gas canisters were fired to disperse them.

The injured policemen had since been moved to the National Assembly Clinic where they are currently being attended to by medical personnel.

The Shiite sect members have refused to leave the second gate of the National Assembly despite volleys of gun shot into the air by the security men that had since barricaded the entrance to the Assembly.

The entrance to the National Assembly main building have been closed as staff, other accredited persons and visitors ran for dear lives.