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Watu wenye silaha wameshambulia gereza katika Mji wa Abuja Nchini Nigeria na kusababisha wafungwa zaidi ya 600 kati ya 994 kutoroka wakiwemo wahalifu maarufu, maafisa wa zamani wa Serikali pamoja na Wanamgambo wa Kundi la Boko Haram
Hata hivyo mamlaka zimesema kuwa wafungwa 300 kati ya waliotoroka wamerejeshwa huku juhudi za kuwatafuta wengine zikiendelea
Hadi sasa hakuna kundi lililodai kuhusika na shambulio hilo lililosababisha kifo cha mtu mmoja na majeruhi kadhaa, lakini maafisa wanalishuku kundi la kigaidi la Boko Haram
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Around 300 inmates are on the run after a suspected raid by Islamist Boko Haram militants on a prison in Nigeria's capital Abuja on Tuesday night, an interior ministry official said.
The raid, and a separate ambush on an advance convoy of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari -- who was not present -- heading to his hometown in the northern state of Katsina, highlights Nigeria's going security challenges, especially in northern regions where armed insurgents and gangs are rife.
Shuaib Belgore, permanent secretary at the interior ministry, told journalists outside the Abuja prison -- which has 900 inmates -- that a security officer was killed during the raid and three others were injured.
He said the suspected Boko Haram attackers came for members who were held in the prison.
A security officer with a sniffer dog stands at the medium-security prison on Wednesday.
A security officer with a sniffer dog stands at the medium-security prison on Wednesday.
"They came specifically for their co-conspirators, but in order to get them ... some of them are in the general (prison) population so they broke out and other people in that population escaped as well but many of them have returned," Belgore said.
He added that more than 600 inmates had fled but half had been recaptured and a manhunt was continuing.
"They have reported themselves to the police, some we have successfully retrieved from the bushes where they were hiding, and (as of) now we have retrieved about 300 out of about 600 that got out of the jail cells," he said.
Outside the prison, the charred remains of several vehicles with bullet holes were seen on Wednesday morning, attesting to gunbattles in the vicinity during the raid.
More than 600 inmates had fled but half had been recaptured and a manhunt was continuing, said Shuaib Belgore, permanent secretary at Nigeria interior ministry.
More than 600 inmates had fled but half had been recaptured and a manhunt was continuing, said Shuaib Belgore, permanent secretary at Nigeria's interior ministry.
A helicopter hovered overhead as armed security officials brought in a shirtless inmate limping with a gaping wound on his leg, while another injured inmate was carried into the prison.
Buhari was not in the convoy of cars carrying an advance team of security guards, protocol and media officers heading to the president's hometown Daura, near the border with Niger, to prepare for the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday.
"The attackers opened fire on the convoy from ambush positions but were repelled by the military, police and security personnel accompanying the convoy," a presidential spokesman said in a statement
Source: CNN
Hata hivyo mamlaka zimesema kuwa wafungwa 300 kati ya waliotoroka wamerejeshwa huku juhudi za kuwatafuta wengine zikiendelea
Hadi sasa hakuna kundi lililodai kuhusika na shambulio hilo lililosababisha kifo cha mtu mmoja na majeruhi kadhaa, lakini maafisa wanalishuku kundi la kigaidi la Boko Haram
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Around 300 inmates are on the run after a suspected raid by Islamist Boko Haram militants on a prison in Nigeria's capital Abuja on Tuesday night, an interior ministry official said.
The raid, and a separate ambush on an advance convoy of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari -- who was not present -- heading to his hometown in the northern state of Katsina, highlights Nigeria's going security challenges, especially in northern regions where armed insurgents and gangs are rife.
Shuaib Belgore, permanent secretary at the interior ministry, told journalists outside the Abuja prison -- which has 900 inmates -- that a security officer was killed during the raid and three others were injured.
He said the suspected Boko Haram attackers came for members who were held in the prison.
A security officer with a sniffer dog stands at the medium-security prison on Wednesday.
A security officer with a sniffer dog stands at the medium-security prison on Wednesday.
"They came specifically for their co-conspirators, but in order to get them ... some of them are in the general (prison) population so they broke out and other people in that population escaped as well but many of them have returned," Belgore said.
He added that more than 600 inmates had fled but half had been recaptured and a manhunt was continuing.
"They have reported themselves to the police, some we have successfully retrieved from the bushes where they were hiding, and (as of) now we have retrieved about 300 out of about 600 that got out of the jail cells," he said.
Outside the prison, the charred remains of several vehicles with bullet holes were seen on Wednesday morning, attesting to gunbattles in the vicinity during the raid.
More than 600 inmates had fled but half had been recaptured and a manhunt was continuing, said Shuaib Belgore, permanent secretary at Nigeria interior ministry.
More than 600 inmates had fled but half had been recaptured and a manhunt was continuing, said Shuaib Belgore, permanent secretary at Nigeria's interior ministry.
A helicopter hovered overhead as armed security officials brought in a shirtless inmate limping with a gaping wound on his leg, while another injured inmate was carried into the prison.
Buhari was not in the convoy of cars carrying an advance team of security guards, protocol and media officers heading to the president's hometown Daura, near the border with Niger, to prepare for the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday.
"The attackers opened fire on the convoy from ambush positions but were repelled by the military, police and security personnel accompanying the convoy," a presidential spokesman said in a statement
Source: CNN
