LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Armed gunmen from a radical Islamic sect stormed a federal prison in Nigeria amid heavy gunfire and explosions, killing one guard and freeing 119 inmates in an assault marking its growing national ambitions, officials said Thursday.
The sect, known as Boko Haram, claimed it freed seven followers in the attack that happened just after 7 p.m. Wednesday in the town of Koton-Karifi in the Kogi state, just south of Nigeria’s capital Abuja. Authorities declined to say the attack was the work of the group.
 
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