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Last Updated: Monday, 29 January 2007, 01:29 GMT
"Nigerian militants in jail raid"
By Alex Last
BBC News, Lagos
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "About 50 members of a militant group have stormed through the Nigerian city of Port Harcourt and sprung a gang leader from jail, the group says.
Sobomabo George was described by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta as a senior leader.
Eyewitnesses said the gang, armed with machine guns, stormed through eastern Port Harcourt and raided the police station where he was being held.
Officials said one passer-by was killed in the assault.
This was a dramatic illustration of the Niger Delta's insecurity with Nigerian elections just months away.
The trouble began with the arrest of Sobomabo George, a gang leader with militant connections. He controls a gang called The Outlaws, one of many such groups operating in the Niger Delta."
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