nigeria ' s kano municipality and us drugs firm pfizer have agreed to settle a multi - trillion dollar lawsuit out of court , lawyers for both nations say . pfizer has been alleged of murder 11 children and ill 181 others when an antibiotic was tested on them during a bacterial epidemic in 1996 . the organization rejects the claiming , that they were subjects of the infectious . the kano state lawyer stated the bbc compensation would be offered to victims , but they could not yet be disclosed . advocate aliyu umar said money would also be given to a local hospital .
Pfizer is accused of murdering 11 children.