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By Dayo Badmus,
Gunmen have blown up Owerri Prison in Imo State, southeast Nigeria.
The correctional facility and a police investigations department in Owerri, Imo State, southeast Nigeria, were set ablaze by unidentified attackers in an overnight operation on Monday, April 5.
Reports on social media by witnesses said the attackers struck the prison and police department shortly after midnight, freeing unconfirmed number of inmates and suspects.
Heavy gunfire also rang through the area, with an account saying over hundreds of inmates might have escaped.
The level of destruction and casualty figures were not immediately available, but pictures shared on the micro-blogging site, Twitter, showed heavy smokes billowing from what posters said were the scenes of the attack that lasted for more than two hours.
