Armed, alleged to be members of Boko Haramattacked with explosives last Tuesday night a prison located near Abuja, its capital Nigeriaand released hundreds of prisoners.
Information on the fate of the escapees varies, with prison authorities today indicating that they have arrests most and a Nigerian interior ministry official to report that they are still escaping.
Residents of the area said they heard loud explosions last Tuesday night near the Kuze Medium Security Penitentiary, a suburb of Abuja.
As reported by the Athens News Agency, a member of the security services he was killed when gunmen stormed the prison after they detonated explosives, said Abubakar Umar, a spokesman for the prison authorities.
“More than 300 prisoners escaped but until this morning we had managed to arrest almost 300,” he added.
Prison officials are still trying to determine the exact number of missing inmates, according to Umar.
“We heard gunshots on my street. We believed that these are armed robbers“, said a resident of the area. “The first explosion was heard after the shooting. Then there was one second and a third».
The identity of the perpetrators is currently unknown.
This major attack on the prison is the latest episode in a long line of attacks on prisons in the most populous country in Africawhich are often overcrowded and guarded by exhausted guards.
Last year more than 1,800 prisoners had escaped when heavily armed men attacked a prison in southeastern Nigeria, where a rebel insurgency is raging, with explosives.
In addition to the southeast, Nigerian security forces have been deployed on several fronts: the northeast, where a jihadist insurgency has been raging since 2009, and the northwest and central parts of the country, which are plagued by various armed groups.
Source: News Beast
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