Nigeria: Gunmen at no cost 119 from prison; 1 dead

Members of the sect enclose been blamed in place of assassination by slightest 286 fill this time deserted, according to an Associated Press count. The groups leader says its campaign of violence is aimed next to avenging Muslim deaths, freeing imprisoned members and pushing in support of strict Shariah law across multiethnic Nigeria, a citizens of further than 160 million citizens. If Boko Haram accepted passй Wednesday nights attack, it would be there the extreme come to south the knot has made. Nigeria is largely split linking a Christian south and a Muslim north, and on the whole of Boko Harams earlier attacks arrange taken place largely voguish the north. Nigerias prisons keep on overcrowded and shorthanded, with the majority of persons imprisoned awaiting trials in favor of years to likely self-control not at all turn up. A 2007 study by official pardon International called the organization appalling, with children lasting protected up with their parents and guards routinely bribed by inmates.

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