Activists on Tuesday accused Nigeria's military of killing hundreds upon hundreds, perhaps as many as 1,000, Shia Muslims in just three days in what the country's top human rights protector is calling "a massacre," CBC News reported.

The Shia Islamic Movement in Nigeria said soldiers on Monday carried away about 200 bodies from around the home of leader Ibraheem Zakzaky, and demanded that the bodies be returned for the speedy burial required by Islamic tradition, according to spokesman Ibrahim Musa.

Chidi Odinkalu of the Nigerian Human Rights Commission posted photos on social media showing a bulldozer tearing apart a Shia shrine and said Zakzaky's home also was destroyed.

Odinkalu said that Zakzaky suffered four bullet wounds and one of his wives was killed in raids in the ancient Muslim town of Zaria, in northern Nigeria, that began Saturday and ended Monday morning. He was quoting the family doctor.

Sources: MENA