A group of suspected thugs have carried out another prison break in Edo State and set prisoners free, hours after the first in Benin.

According to reports, the second jailbreak was carried out at the Oko Medium Security Centre which allegedly has 1300 inmates as the hoodlums overpowered five armed guards in the facility.

This is coming after the popular Benin Correctional Centre called White House was stormed by unknown thugs earlier on Monday morning, setting prisoners free.

Furthers reports revealed that the prisoners carted away with valuables from offices of prison officials and afterwards looted nearby shops.

It was gathered that immediately after the attack in Benin Prison, security was alerted in Oko but calls to the Nigerian Army and the Police for reinforcement were not heeded hence the ease with which the hoodlums overpowered the prison guards.

A prison source said, “They came in their thousands and their mission was to free inmates. They have been communicating with the inmates because even before they broke into the facility, the inmates were already rioting inside the place.”

Before the attack on Oko Correctional Centre, the suspected hoodlums had ransacked Oba Market police station, attacked its armoury and went away with their guns and some uniforms they found in the station.

While that was going, suspected hoodlums attacked Igbekun police station and set it ablaze.