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By Aminu Abubakar | AFP – Thu, Feb 16, 2012
View PhotoPrison staff members stand outside the central prison in the northern Nigerian city of Bauchi in September 2010. Gunmen bombed their way into a prison in central Nigeria before opening fire on the wardens and emptying the jail of its estimated 200 inmates, residents and an official said on Thursday.
Gunmen bombed their way into a prison in central Nigeria before opening fire on the wardens and emptying the jail of its estimated 200 inmates, residents and an official said on Thursday.
"Last night around 7:00 pm (1800 GMT), around 20 gunmen attacked the prison. They hurled explosives to blow up the gate of the prison, and engaged the wardens in a shootout," said resident Isiaka Yakub, adding the jail was holding some 200 inmates at the time of the attack.
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