The armed oranng using bombs, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade in an attack on a jail, police station, banks and places to drink beer. "Kano, Nigeria (Reuters)-a total of 127 prisoners escaped when armed men attacked a jail in the Eastern Adamawa, Nigeria, said the head of the prison in the State, Sunday.
"As many as 127 prisoners escaped after the attack. So far, we have not managed to catch them again, "said Andrew Barka, the AFP report.
Only one prisoner, who was shot and injured in the leg, left behind in the prison located in the town of Friday's RAID in Ganye, he continued.
"We lost a Deputy Superintendent in charge of the prison Ganye in the attack. He was shot dead by gunmen, "said Barka told AFP.
He added, the gates of the prison was destroyed and jail cells opened forcibly by armed attackers, who made the prisoners could escape.
The armed group that killed 25 people in a series of raids in several locations in Ganye, including prisons, police stations, banks and two bars, the Adamawa Police spokesman said Mohammed Ibrahim.
"People were using bomb-armed oranng, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades in the attack on the jail, police station, banks and places to drink beer," said Ibrahim.
The officials said they do not know how much money was taken from the bank's attackers.
Although Ibrahim refused to say whether the attackers were members of the Boko Haram, the RAID was similar to previous attacks claimed by the group in several areas in Northern Nigeria.
Boko Haram violence estimated to have killed up to 3,000 people since 2009, including killings by the security forces.
The Group declared war to establish an Islamic State in Northern Nigeria's muslim majority.
Violence escalates in Nigeria since the attacks killed dozens of people during Christmas celebrations 2011 which was claimed by hardline muslim group Boko Haram.
Kano, the city has a population of about 10 million people in Northern Nigeria, a region which was hit hardest in the violence.
A series of bombings and shootings swept Kano after Friday prayers on January 20, 2012, killing 185 people, in attacks claimed by Boko Haram which aimed at the police headquarters and the offices of other policemen, a police building and immigration offices.
The attacks were the most deadly operations by the Group and is aimed primarily at the police station.
Boko Haram claimed dozens of attacks in Nigeria, including suicide bombings in August at UN headquarters in Abuja that killed at least 24 people.
A series of bomb attacks in the city of Jos, central Nigeria, on Christmas Eve 2010 also claimed by Boko Haram.
Boko Haram launched a violent action in 2009 that the uprising was crushed brutally by the military which killed about 800 people and destroying mosques and their headquarters in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, Nigeria.
The Group was inactive for about a year and then appeared again in 2010 with a series of murders.
Nigeria's population of over 160 million people split in the northern region, which is mostly Muslim and the South largely Christian. (M014)
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