Nigeria: Maiduguri hospital shut 'over police assault'

Doctors have closed the main hospital in Nigeria's north-eastern city of Maiduguri in protest at alleged police assaults on staff and patients.

They say officers became angry because the hospital mortuary was too full to take the bodies of colleagues killed by suspected Islamist militants.
One doctor told the BBC they would not reopen the hospital to new patients until the government provided them with security to do their work in safety.
The police have not yet commented.
Maiduguri is the capital of Borno state, where the Islamist group Boko Haram is based and where it has waged a violent insurgency to create an Islamic state since 2010.