Following severe flooding in Nigeria's Borno state, a total of 274 inmates managed to escape custody after the walls of a prison were torn down. The incident occurred as the inmates were being transferred to a supposedly safe facility, with 281 initially escaping and seven later recaptured, according to Nigerian Correctional Service spokesman Abubakar Umar.
The flooding not only affected the prison but also caused damage to the medium security custodial center Maiduguri and staff quarters in the city. The Correctional Service has identified the escapees and made their biometric information public, continuing the search efforts to locate them.
