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Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants stormed a prison in their northeastern heartland on Friday, killing two guards and freeing the inmates, police said, in the latest in a surge of attacks blamed on the Islamist group. A police spokesman for Borno state, in the northeast of Africa’s top oil producer, said 23 suspects had since been arrested. “The BH (Boko Haram) first attacked the Banki police station but they were repelled . . . They then went to Kumshe, a nearby town, and attacked the prison lockup killing two officials before setting all the inmates free,” he said. . . .

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