Abuja DSS attack
Abuja DSS Attack | |
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Part of FCT, Nigeria | |
Date | 31 March 2014 |
Target | Department of State Security, Abuja |
Attack type | Prison escape |
Deaths | 21 |
Injured | 2 |
Perpetrators | Boko Haram |
No. of participants | Unknown |
Defenders | 0 |
The Abuja DSS attack was a coordinated
Incident
The incident occurred on Sunday 31 March 2014 in the morning, when one of the service suspect handler went to the detention to serve their breakfast.[3] In a bid to return to his office, he was disarmed by one of the insurgents who hit him on the head with his handcuff in an attempt to escape.[4] This incessant action drew the attention of the armed guards who shot in the air to stop them.[2] This effort was futile until the army officers came in to suppress the uprising.[5] Twenty-one prisoners were killed by the military personnel and two government officials were seriously injured.[6]
Reactions
After the attack, there was a controversy over the death of the 21 prisoners who died in the process of the attack,[7] because some innocent prisoners might have been killed by the soldiers who labeled them as Boko haram.[8] This assumption was based on the New York Times publications of the Amnesty International report that alleges malicious killing of about 600 unarmed,[9] rearrested escapees who had been earlier freed when Boko haram attacked the Giwa military barracks in Maiduguri.[10] The Amnesty International report was based on an eye-witness account of the
See also
- List of prison breaks in Nigeria
- Nigeria prison break
References
- ^ "DSS foils attempted jail break at its headquarter in Abuja". Vanguard News. 20 February 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
- ^ a b "Abuja Boko Haram Jailbreak: SSS Confirms 21 Casualties". Sahara Reporters. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
- ^ "DSS foils attempted jail break at its headquarter in Abuja". Vanguard News. 20 February 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
- ^ "20 Boko Haram suspects killed in Abuja DSS attack". Vanguard News. 20 February 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
- ^ "21 die in Abuja attempted jailbreak - DSS". Nigeria. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
- ^ Mikail Mumuni; Cyril Mbah; Kola Olawoyin. "21 die as SSS foils Boko Haram Abuja jailbreak". Newswatch Times. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
- ^ "Boko Haram Giwa barracks attack: Nigerian army 'killed hundreds'". BBC News. 31 March 2014. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
- ^ "Amnesty International Accuses Nigerian Military of Committing War Crimes, Claims Videos Show Abuses (GRAPHIC VIDEO)". HuffPost. 5 August 2014. Archived from the original on 28 December 2014. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
- ^ "Abuja DSS Jailbreak: The Truth Behind It Exposed By New York Times". OsunDefender. Archived from the original on 28 December 2014. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
- ^ "Amnesty International: 1,500 Nigerians Killed in Boko Haram Violence in 2014". VOA. 30 March 2014. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
- ^ Jack Moore (31 March 2014). "Nigeria Army 'Killed Hundreds' After Boko Haram Barracks Attack - Amnesty International". International Business Times UK. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
- ^ "16 men arrested by Nigeria soldiers 'found dead with bullet wounds'". Times LIVE. Agence France-Presse. Retrieved 20 February 2016.