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Several inmates at the Ado Ekiti prison have escaped following an attack on the facility by gunmen on Sunday at about 10.15 pm.
The controller of prison, Kehinde Fadipe, who confirmed the attack, said the attackers used dynamite to break the main entrance to the prison.
He added that some of the escaped inmate have been rearrested.
“We were attacked from outside and not from within. They came massively with different weapons.
“We have been here since yesterday 11:00 pm till this morning. Our men are out there trying to recapture some of them. There was no casualty and the motive of those that came will come to light later,” he said.
Meanwhile , the security men did not allow journalists to take shots of the affected side of the building.
The Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, has promised to be in Ado Ekiti to assess the level of the attack.
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