Two police officers were killed and more than 800 detainees escaped overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday August 10 during the attack on a prison by militiamen in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, it was reported. learned from military sources and experts.
“
An unidentified Mai-Mai group attacked the central prison of Kakwangura in the town of Butembo.
The first toll, still provisional, reports two guard policemen killed
,” said Captain Antony Mualushayi, army spokesman in Beni.
An assailant was also killed and ammunition recovered, he added.
"The ADF are suspected"
The Mai-Mai are members of Congolese self-defense groups.
According to a prison source who requested anonymity, of the 872 people detained in this prison, only 49 remained there.
This "
attack caused the death of at least two police officers and the flight of all the detainees
", wrote on Twitter the Kivu Security Barometer (KST), an organization which has observers in the area, specifying that "
the ADF are suspected
”.
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Presented by the jihadist organization Islamic State (IS) 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 to have committed attacks in Uganda.
The ADF are presented as one of the deadliest groups in the eastern region of the DRC, torn by violence for nearly 30 years.
In the DRC, deadly attacks targeting prisons and causing detainees to escape are often reported.