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Gunmen attack Nigerian prison, leading to escape of 1,800 inmates in Owerri
More than 1,800 inmates escaped from a Nigerian prison in the south-eastern city of Owerri after an attack by gunmen carrying rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns, explosives and rifles, the prisons authority said.
Key points:
- Police said the attackers used explosives to blast their way into the prison yard
- The secessionist group accused by police of being behind the attack denied their involvement
- The group is one of several security challenges facing Nigeria’s president
Nigerian police said it believed a banned separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was behind the attack, but a spokesman for the group denied involvement.
The secessionist movement in the south-east is one of several serious security challenges facing…
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