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schema:articleBody	More than 1,800 inmates have escaped after heavily armed men attacked a prison in southern Nigeria using explosives, prison authorities said Monday, in one of the country's largest jailbreaks. The attackers blasted their way into the Owerri prison in Imo state, engaging guards in a gun battle, the national corrections authority said in a statement. "I can confirm that the Imo State command of the Nigerian Correctional Service was attacked by unknown gunmen in Owerri," Imo state corrections service spokesman James Madugba told AFP, adding that the number of escaped inmates was yet to be confirmed. "The situation is under control," he said. The assailants arrived in pickup trucks and buses before storming the facility, the correction authority said. President Muhammadu Buhari in a statement called the attack an "act of terrorism" and urged security forces to capture the assailants and the escaped detainees. The governor of neighbouring Abia state imposed a night curfew on two towns there after the prison escape, a statement said, to protect local residents. Imo state is part of a region that has long been a hotbed for separatist groups and where tensions between federal authorities and the indigenous Igbo population are often high. The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) separatist movement has recently been posting videos on social media of dozens of its militiamen in training. Authorities imposed a curfew on parts of Imo State earlier this year after clashes between the army and the local militia. But IPOB spokesman Emmanuel Powerful rejected any involvement in the Imo prison attack in a statement sent to AFP, dismissing any accusations as "lies". Calls for a separate state of Biafra are a sensitive subject in Nigeria, after a unilateral declaration of independence from British rule in 1967 sparked a brutal 30-month civil war. Prisons in Africa's most populous country are often overcrowded and with poor hygiene, and as many as 70 percent of inmates are on remand and can be held awaiting trial for years. str-spb/pma/gd
schema:headline	More than 1,800 prisoners escape after attack on Nigeria jail: official
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