May 28, 2012
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Gunmen free 800 inmates in Nigeria
9 September 2010 / REUTERS, KADUNA
Heavily armed gunmen attacked a prison in the central Nigerian city of Bauchi late on Tuesday, freeing as many as 800 inmates including suspected members of a militant sect, police said.
State police commissioner Danlami Yar’Adua said the gunmen killed four people including two bodyguards and set part of the prison on fire. He said everything possible was being done to track down the escaped prisoners. “About 50 men with machine guns came to the prison site, forced the prison open and released all the prisoners,” one Bauchi resident told Reuters, asking not to be named. Residents said the attackers were believed to be members of Boko Haram, a radical sect behind an uprising which killed hundreds of people in and around the northern city of Maiduguri a year ago. Followers of Boko Haram -- which means “Western education is sinful” in the Hausa language spoken across northern Nigeria -- want sharia imposed more widely across Africa’s most populous nation.
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