Gunmen in Nigeria have freed nearly 200 prisoners from a jail, officials say.
Hadijha Aminu, from the Nigerian Prisons Service, told the BBC the jail in Koton-Karifi in the central state of Kogi was attacked on Wednesday evening.
She said a large number of men with weapons stormed the prison, but details of the attack were still unclear.
But she said the authorities did not believe it was the work of Boko Haram, the Islamist group behind a massive jailbreak in 2010 in Bauchi state.
In that incident Boko Haram freed about 700 prisoners, many of whom were members of the group.
Boko Haram has gone on to stage increasingly deadly attacks in the north of the country.
Last month it also freed some of its captured members during a series of bombings on police stations in the northern city Kano.
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Ms Aminu told the BBC Hausa Service that the attackers freed all but one of the inmates.
A warden was killed when attackers forced open the gates of the jail and 199 prisoners are now on the run.
A police officer, who requested anonymity, told Nigeria's Daily Trust newspaper that the gunmen, estimated to number 20, stormed the jail on motorbike.
He said the operation, launched at about 19:00 local time (18:00 GMT), lasted for about 30 minutes.
"After bombing the gate, they immediately moved into the prison shooting sporadically in order to chase other prison officers away," another eyewitness told the paper.
Ms Aminu declined to explain why the involvement of the Islamists had been ruled out and said most of the freed inmates were awaiting trial.
Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is forbidden", wants to establish Islamic law in Nigeria.
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