Whereabout of 500 inmates, including some high profile inmates at the Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja unknown, following Tuesday’s attack by terrorists numbering 300.
The attacks, which lasted some hours, were said to have been resisted by military personnel and prison guards on duty.
Sources said Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari and his men who were in the facility may have escaped from the facility.
Former Plateau Governor Joshua Dariye and his Taraba counterpart Jolly Nyame who had been granted pardon by the National Council of States were also in the facility.
The federal government was yet to effect their release as of the time of the attacks.
Sources within the facility confided in newsmen that besides the high profile inmates, some terrorists and other criminals might have escaped in the thickness of the darkness and the gunfire from the attackers.