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Nigerian authorities have announced that 281 prisoners have escaped after floods washed away the walls of a prison in the north-east of the country.
A major dam collapsed on September 10, causing massive flooding that left 30 people dead, displaced more than a million, and prompted evacuations across Borno state..
The spokesman for the Nigerian Correctional Services, Omar Abubakar, said in a statement that officers tried to evacuate the main prison in the city of Maiduguri last week when they discovered that inmates had escaped..
Abu Bakr said: “Flooding damaged the walls of correctional facilities, including the Medium Security Detention Center, as well as staff accommodation in the city,” noting that “security personnel were able to 7 of the prisoners have been recovered and the process is still ongoing to find the rest.”
The collapse caused some of the worst flooding in the state since the collapse of the same dam 30 years ago, and the state government said the dam was full due to unusually heavy rain..
Two years ago heavy floods in Nigeria killed more than 600 people across the country.
West Africa saw some of the most severe flooding in decades this year, affecting more than 2.3 million people, a threefold increase from 2023, according to the United Nations..
Source: Agencies
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2024-09-20 18:27:32