PRISONERS ON THE RUN

NIGERIAN security forces recaptured 446 inmates who escaped from prison in a mass jailbreak over the weekend with nearly 400 others still at large yesterday, officials said. Heavily armed men used grenades to storm the Abolongo prison in south-west state Oyo at the weekend, in the third mass prison outbreak this year in Africa’s most populous nation. In addition to fighting jihadists, Nigerian troops are also facing violent criminal gangs across the country and separatist agitation in the southeast. |