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Police recapture 114 prisoners

Police recapture 114 prisoners

A total of 114 of the 266 inmates who escaped from a Nigerian prison on Sunday have been recaptured, the prison service has announced. Heavily armed gunmen raided the medium-security jail at Kabba in south-central Nigeria late on Sunday, blowing up the perimeter fence and freeing almost everyone, but killing a soldier and a police officer, authorities said. The attackers fought a gun battle with guards in what was the second major jailbreak in Nigeria this year. "Following the attack ... and the swift intervention of the controller general of corrections ... a total of 114 escapees have been recaptured,"…
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Tears, singing as abducted Nigerian students return

Tears, singing as abducted Nigerian students return

NEARLY two months after their abduction by armed gunmen, more than two dozen students in northwest Nigeria's Kaduna state were reunited with jubilant family members on Friday amid tears and celebratory singing. Thirty-nine students were taken from a forestry college at gunpoint on March 11. Ten were later released, and their parents said this week that two had escaped. The remaining 27 told reporters they were held in a forest, periodically beaten with sticks and guns, and allowed to contact their families only to beg for ransom. Female students said they tore their clothing to use as sanitary pads. "The…
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