Attacked with explosives and firearms a prison located in the capital, Abuja
July 6. (EUROPA PRESS) –
At least two people were injured late on Tuesday in an attack by unidentified gunmen on a convoy of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s team in the northern state of Katsina, police confirmed. authorities.
The spokesman for the Nigerian Presidency, Garba Shehu, stressed that the convoy was transporting “an advanced team of security guards, members of protocol and media workers for Buhari’s visit to Daura” -his hometown- – to celebrate the Muslim holiday of Eid al Adha.
“The attackers opened fire on the convoy from ambush positions, although they were repelled by the soldiers, police and intelligence personnel accompanying the convoy,” he stated, before stressing that, except for the wounded, the rest of the personnel and vehicles “reached Daura safely”.
At the moment there is no claim of responsibility for the attack, which takes place in the midst of a worsening security situation in the African country. In this context, armed people attacked a prison in the capital, Abuja, on Tuesday night, which would have led to an escape of prisoners, according to the newspaper ‘The Premium Times’.
An employee at Kuje prison has spoken of a “massive” attack on the facility after the assailants launched several explosives and opened fire in the area, with no reports of casualties so far. The prison has a capacity for 550 prisoners, although it currently houses around a thousand inmates, including members of the jihadist group Boko Haram.
For his part, the Nigerian Information Minister, Lai Mohammed, has criticized the call by the authorities of the state of Zamfara (northeast) for the population to arm themselves to defend themselves against armed groups and criminal gangs and has argued that this ” It’s a recipe for anarchy.”
Mohammed has defended in declarations granted to the British television network BBC that the governors of the Nigerian states must “support the federal government in matters of security”. “Security has improved since 2015”, he underlined, before dismissing criticism about the situation in the African country. “One does not judge what one understands very little about”, he has settled.
Insecurity in Nigeria, previously centered in the northeast of the country, has spread in recent months to other areas in the north and northwest, raising alarms about the possible expansion of these terrorist and criminal networks.
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