Daring gunmen made a botched attack on Port Harcourt Prisons in the Rivers State Capital Tuesday, in an attack ostensibly meant to free inmates.
The attack was however repelled by alert security men, leaving a yet-to-be known casualty figure.
Heavy gunfire boomed around the prisons in the early hours, the same day armed men killed two guards at the Rivers High Court complex.
The gunmen had launched the attack on the prisons from Bundu Waterside in the Town axis of Port Harcourt. The Prison is located near Bundu Waterfront.
Both the Controller and Deputy Controller of the prisons were unreachable at the time of this report, but the security around the prisons perimetre has been tightened.
Recalled that earlier in the day, the High Court Complex was attacked with two Securitymen killed and two other persons critically injured.
The High Court Complex is a whispering distance from the Rivers Command Police Headquarters along Moscow Road,Port Harcourt.
Security sources said the attacks could be connected with the proposed arraignment of three suspects standing trial over the alleged killing of a Niger-Delta warlord, Soboma George six years ago.
Rivers state Commissioner of Police, Musa Kimo, who visited the scene of the killings, said, “the action is regrettable but we assure our Judiciary workers of their safety and we will ensure that the perpetrators of this act will be found.”
Security has now been beefed-up in and around the court premises and the area has been cordoned off.
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