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Two police killed, 800 inmates flee in DR Congo jailbreak
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DR Congo, 12 August 2022, (TON): Sources said “more than 800 inmates have escaped from a prison in eastern DR Congo after gunmen staged a jailbreak in which two policemen were killed.”
Captain Antony Mualushayi, the military spokesman in the Beni region, said “armed men “attacked Kakwangura central prison in the town of Butembo.”
He said “the initial toll, which is still provisional, is two policemen killed.”
He added that an assailant had also died.
A source in the prison service, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that out of the 872 inmates, all but 49 had escaped.
Mualushayi said an unidentified Mai-Mai group carried out the attack. The term Mai-Mai refers to an ethnic self-defence organisation, which are legion in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s troubled east.
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