Nigeria: Warder Fires Shot Near Keffi Mosque

19 March 2012

Lafia — There was apprehension in Keffi in Nasarawa State, after a prison warder fired a shot during the Friday Muslim Juma'at prayers at the Central Mosque adjoining the palace of the Emir of Keffi, Alhaji Muhammadu Chindo.

Witnesses said a warder at about 2pm, fired a shot in the air to disperse worshippers in front of the mosque, while escorting some inmates in a prison van from the court.

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