By AFPMore by this AuthorTSHIKAPA,Thirteen people were killed in a jailbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo's central Kasai region, the head of the prison said Saturday. "Nine prisoners died when security forces tried to recapture them," prison head Masaka Nansaka told reporters, adding that two police officers and two former militia fighters were also killed. Nansaka said roughly 60 people managed to escape, adding that the facility had held 272 civilian and 98 military prisoners before the jailbreak. Kasai's deputy governor Hubert Mbingho said the trouble started when friends of the dead militia fighter came to claim his body. "In the confusion many prisoners escaped and jumped into the Kasai river flowing alongside the jail and swam away," Mbingho added.

Source: Daily Nation February 10, 2019 03:45 UTC