Four inmates dead, 36 missing in Nigeria jail-break: Police

In Nigeria, four inmates were killed and 36 went missing when wardens shot at fleeing prisoners in a bid to thwart a jail-break in the southern state. Police said, there was an attack on kitchen staff that were on duty at Ikot Ekpene prison in Akwa Ibom state by some prisoners. 

State police spokesman Ogbajie Ogbajie in a statement yesterday said, they seized an axe from a fellow inmate attached to the kitchen, inflicting a deep cut to



the inmate's head in the process and immediately made for the rear entrance to the prison. 

They broke the door with the axe and engaged the staff that chased after them," he said.

At the end of the scuffle, four of them that sustained gunshots lost their lives while seven were recaptured. Thirty-six are still at large and search parties have been activated to effect their recapture.