africa ' s kano city and us chemical firm pfizer have agreeing to settle a 10 - billion dollar lawsuit out of litigation , lawyers for both countries say . pfizer has been convicted of killing 11 girls and attacking 181 others when an antibiotic was tried on them during a dysentery epidemic in 1996 . the company dismissed the charges , saying they were participants of the disease . the bauchi region lawyer asked the abc pensions would be paid to victims , but figures will not well be disclosed . barrister musa umar said it had also be passed to a county hospital .
Pfizer is accused of murdering 11 children.