Unknown Gunmen in the early hours of Monday, 5th March, 2021, invaded the Owerri Correctional Centre and a police investigations department, setting offices and cars ablaze before releasing the prisoners.
Dickson101.com learnt that the unknown gunmen who were heavily armed struck the prisons and the police department few minutes past midnight
Eyewitnesses told our correspondents that the gunmen freed an unconfirmed number of inmates after overpowering the few security operatives guarding the correctional facility.
A report by Amnesty International over the weekend shows that the Owerri correctional facility built for a capacity of 548 prisoners has 2,156 inmates.
Federal and state authorities are yet to officially comment in the incident.
Details later…
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