Govt Confirms 129 Prisoners Killed During Alleged JailBreak Attempt In Congo ~ OsazuwaAkonedo #Congo #DRC #Jacquemain #Kinshasa #Lukoo #Makala #news #Shabani https://osazuwaakonedo.online/govt-confirms-129-prisoners-killed-during-alleged-jailbreak-attempt-in-congo/03/09/2024/ #World News Published: September 3rd, 2024 Reshared: September 3, 2024 7:40 pm Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC government has on Tuesday confirmed that over
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00:00Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC government has on Tuesday confirmed that over 129 prisoners
00:08were killed during alleged prison break on Monday early morning night.
00:12The prison, Malaka Central Prison located in the country capital,
00:17Kinshasa is said to be a terrible environment where over 14,000 to 15,000 prisoners are kept
00:24in a facility reportedly meant for 1,500 people. The government said 24 of the prisoners were
00:32initially shot dead after warning shots were fired by the security operatives.
00:37The government did not state if there were external factors that came to the prison
00:42in the early morning night on Monday to aid the escape of the prisoners.
00:46We gathered that after the prisoners held gunshots, there was pandemonium and the
00:51already overcrowded prison facility saw many of the prisoners trying to escape for safety
00:57and they were shot dead by the security operatives.
01:00The government claimed that out of the 129 prisoners confirmed dead,
01:06105 of the inmates suffocated to death during stampede.
01:10The government added that some of the female prisoners were raped during the stampede.
01:16The government have not provided any detail to authenticate the claim that
01:20some of the female prisoners were raped during the stampede.
01:24A video of the prison facility posted online by Ruta's International News Agency showed
01:29hundreds of women with some of them carrying their babies,
01:33jam-packed in a small room cell,
01:35crying and wailing through the cell ion protector window begging for freedom.
01:40The appearance of the female prisoners in the video looked dehumanized and
01:44the may be suffering immense suffocation and heat.
01:48A prison official, according to Ruta's has said no prisoner had succeeded in escaping,
01:54adding that those who tried to escape had been killed.
01:57And the government was investigating the incident.
02:00The breakout attempt occurred around 2 a.m. or 100 GMT on Monday.
02:08Prisoners told Ruta's they had held heavy gunfire, as well as sounds of prisoners outside.
02:14Despite reports of mass casualties imagined on Monday,
02:18the government had initially said that only two people had died.
02:23It could be recalled that seven years ago, at least 4,000 inmates escaped from the same prison
02:29which is considered the country's largest prison facility.
02:33The government, through the country interior minister,
02:37Jacqueline Shabani-Luku in a tweet on his ex-social media on Tuesday,
02:42said 129 people died and 59 other prisoners were injured.
02:48Interior Minister Shabani-Luku said that 24 prisoners had died of bullet
02:53wounds after warning shots were fired in the early hours of Monday morning.
02:58Most of the others died from suffocation as a result of a
03:01crush during the breakout at Makala prison.
03:05He said in a video news statement,
03:07The mass escape attempt at Makala Central Prison resulted
03:11in the loss of life and significant material damage.
03:15The provisional toll is 129 dead, including 24 by gunfire, after warning.
03:23Investigations are underway to identify and severely punish those
03:27who instigated these acts of sabotage.
03:30They will receive a stern response, added Justice Minister,
03:34Constance Mutambar, who referred to the situation as a premeditated act of sabotage.
03:41He also said a fire broke out and destroyed the prison's administrative buildings,
03:46registry, hospital, and food depots.
03:50Shabani confirmed that the situation was under control.
03:54The Monday morning incident led to a call for a crisis
03:58meeting with the Health of Defense and Security Services.
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