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An uneasy calm is gradually settling in Freetown following gunfire over the weekend that threw Sierra Leone’s capital into panic mode.
Gunshots rang out early Sunday morning as armed men attacked Wilberforce barracks, the military’s main encampment and one of the largest garrisons in the West African country.
Videos on social media showed several inmates running away from the Central Prison, popularly called the Pademba Road Prison, after the armed men also attacked the facility and set free almost all of the about 1,000 people held there. A police station holding prisoners, too, was…
