NEWS DIGEST – An attack on a prisons court duty vehicle conveying 18 awaiting trial persons from Sokoto prison to court by some miscreants has been foiled by men of the prisons Armed squad and the police force.
The hoodlums, armed with machetes and other dangerous weapons attempted to set free the inmates being taken to court along sultan Abubakar Road, Sokoto.
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This was however repelled as men of the Nigerian Police Force swiftly responded to assist the Nigerian prisons Armed squad personnel to resist the attack thus preventing what would have been resulted in a major security breach in Sokoto State.
Meanwhile, the prisoners have been successfully escorted back to safe custody in the prison yard and security beefed up in and around the facility.
