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Jailbreak: Gunmen free nearly 200 prisoners from a jail in central Nigeria

Gunmen have attacked a federal prison in Nigeria, freeing nearly 200 inmates during a gun battle in an attack similar to one carried out in 2010 by a radical Islamist sect.

(BBC NEWS) Lagos – Hadijha Aminu, a Nigeria Prison Service spokesperson, said the jail in Koton-Karif town in the central state of Kogi was attacked on Wednesday evening.

She said a large number of men with weapons stormed the prison, but details of the attack were still sketchy.

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