More than 200 prisoners break out of a Nigerian prison following flooding
Following the worst flooding the region has seen in more than 20 years, more than 200 prisoners broke out of a jail in northeastern Nigeria , officials have reported. As a result of a dam collapse on September 9, areas of Borno state's capital, Maiduguri , were submerged under water, resulting in 37 fatalities, as reported by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) . Up to 200,000 more people have lost their homes. When President Bola Tinubu visited the city on Monday, locals reported that several places remained submerged in water. The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) announced in a statement on Sunday that following their prison's flooding, officials found that 281 prisoners had fled while being moved to "a safe and secure facility." 274 inmates are still at large and seven have been recaptured . "The walls of the correctional facilities, including the medium-security custodial centre Maiduguri as well as the staff quarters in the city, were b...