Smoke rises from a prison in Ikoyi neighbourhood of Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos, in this handout picture obtained by Reuters on October 22, 2020. Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES
By Libby George
LAGOS (Reuters) – Gunshots rang out in the affluent Ikoyi neighbourhood of Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos on Thursday, one witness said.
Smoke was also seen rising from the direction of Ikoyi correctional facility, a prison, the witness told Reuters.
A Reuters witness saw two trucks carrying police heading towards the prison.
The city of 20 million is under a round-the-clock curfew imposed after nearly two weeks of protests against police brutality – the West African nation’s biggest wave of unrest since the end of military rule in 1999.
Several states are also under curfew and the oil-producing Delta state said it would enter a 48-hour curfew from 6 p.m. (1700 GMT) on Thursday.
Unrest escalated on Wednesday as groups of young men and armed police clashed in some neighbourhoods following a shooting on Tuesday night at a toll gate in the Lagos district of Lekki.
(Additional reporting by Angela Ukomadu in Lagos and Felix Onuah in Abuja; Editing by Kevin Liffey, Tomasz Janowski and Andrew Heavens)
