No fewer than Eight hundred inmates escaped early Wednesday from a prison in eastern DR Congo, according to military sources.
Captain Antony Mualushayi, an army spokesman in Beni. said; “”A group of unidentified Mayi-Mayi attacked the central prison of Kakwangura in the town of Butembo. The first toll, still provisional, is that two policemen on guard duty were killed,” said Captain Antony Mualushayi, an army spokesman in Beni. One assailant was also killed and ammunition recovered.
“”The Mai Mai are members of Congolese self-defence groups”.
A prison source who preferred to remain anonymous, said of the 872 people held in the prison, only 49 remained.
The Kivu Security Barometer (KST), an organisation that has observers in the area, said on Twitter that “the ADF is suspected”.
Presented by the jihadist organisation Islamic State (EI) as its branch in Central Africa (ISCAP in English), the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) group is accused of being responsible for the massacres of thousands of civilians in eastern Congo and of having committed attacks in Uganda.
The ADF is said to be one of the most deadly groups in the eastern region of the DRC, which has been torn apart by violence for nearly 30 years.
