{"id":4621,"date":"2013-06-02T12:26:32","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T12:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/aborted-jailbreak-by-terrorists-in-niamey\/"},"modified":"2013-06-02T12:26:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T12:26:32","slug":"aborted-jailbreak-by-terrorists-in-niamey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/aborted-jailbreak-by-terrorists-in-niamey\/","title":{"rendered":"Aborted jailbreak by terrorists in Niamey"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Inmates in Niamey’s main prison killed two guards Saturday, officials said, a week after twin suicide bombings claimed 20 lives in the west African country.<\/p>\n

Three inmates charged with terrorist offences tried to had break out of the prison, prosecutor Ibrahim Wazir Moussa said on state television.<\/p>\n

“They attacked the guards; the guards fought back,” he added.<\/p>\n

Two of the guards had been killed and another three wounded, one of them seriously, he said.<\/p>\n

Justice Minister Marou Amadou, who also acts as government spokesman, told AFP the three inmates had been overpowered.<\/p>\n

A resident in the district reported shooting from the prison from early afternoon. “Everyone has locked themselves in,” he said<\/p>\n

Another said: “It’s panic everywhere. We were very frightened.”<\/p>\n

Saturday’s attack came a week after twin suicide bombings on May 23, the first such attacks in Niger’s history.<\/p>\n

An attack on the Agadez army base left 18 soldiers and one civilian dead, while a near-simultaneous bombing at French group Areva’s uranium mine killed one and injured 14.<\/p>\n

Two jihadist groups — Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) and Signatories in Blood — claimed the attacks, saying they were in retaliation for Niger’s intervention in neighbouring Mali.<\/p>\n

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