A total of 446 fugitives from Oyo State Prison in southwest Nigeria, attacked Friday (October 22nd) by assailants, have been found while 392 others are still in the wild, said Sunday. an official from Oyo State.
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Heavily armed men broke into the Oyo prison on Friday evening with grenades and dynamite and freed 837 or 838 prisoners, according to conflicting figures from the authorities. "
446 detainees have been recaptured, 392 remain on the run,
" Oyo State Minister of the Interior Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola said on Sunday after visiting the prison. “
The federal government will prosecute not only those who attacked our facility, but also those who escaped legal detention
,” he continued. “
You can run, but you can't hide. We will fish you out!
", He insisted, adding that"
details
"on the detainees would be published in the media.
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A total of 837 prisoners escaped from the prison, prison administration spokesman Olanrewaju Anjorin told AFP on Saturday.
But according to the minister's report, 838 detainees fled.
In Nigeria, Africa's most populous country in the grip of security unrest over large swathes of its territory, prison attacks are rife.
About 240 prisoners escaped on September 13 during the attack on a prison in Kogi (central) state.