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Speaker 1: Democratic Republic of Congo. The LC government has on Tilesday

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confound that over one hundred and twenty nine prisoners were

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killed during alleged prison break on Monday early morning night.

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The prison, Malacca Central Prison, located in the country capital Kenshasa,

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is said to be a terrible environment where over fourteen

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thousand to fifteen thousand prisoners are kept in a facility

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reportedly meant for one thousand, five hundred people. The government

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said twenty four of the prisoners were initially shot dead

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after warning shots were fired by the security operatives. The

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government did not state if there were external factors that

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came to the prison in the early morning night on

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Monday to end the escape of the prisoners. We gathered

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that after the prisoners held gunshots, there was pandemonium and

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the already overcrowded prison facilities, so many of the prisoners

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trying to escape for safety and they were shot dead

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by the security operatives. The government claimed that out of

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the one hundred and twenty nine prisoners confirmed dead, one

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hundred and five of the inmates suffocated to death during stampede.

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The government added that some of the female prisoners were

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rapped during the stampede. The governments have not provided any

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detail to authenticate the claim that some of the female

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prisoners were rapped during the stampede. A video of the

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prison facility posted online by Routers International News agency showed

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hundreds of women, with some of them carrying their babies,

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jump pat in a small room cell, crying and waving

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through the cell iron protector window, begging for freedom. The

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appearance of the female prisoners in the video looked the

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humanized and the mambi suffering immense suffocation and heat. A

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prison official, according to Ruters, has said no prisoner had

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succeeded in escaping, adding that those who tried to escape

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had been killed and the government was investigating the incident.

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The breakout attempt occurred around two am or one hundred

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gmt on Monday. Prisoners told Routers the hard held heavy

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gun fire, as well as sounds of prisoners outside. Despite

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reports of mass casualties imagined on Monday, the government had

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initially said that only two people had died. It could

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be recalled that seven years ago, at least four thousand

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inmates escaped from the same prison, which is considered the

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country’s largest prison facility. The government, through the country. Interior

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Minister Jacklin Shabani Luku, in a tweet on his ex

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social media on Tuesday, said one hundred and twenty nine

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people died and fifty nine other prisoners were injured. Interior

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Minister Shabani Luku said that twenty four prisoners had died

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of bullet wounds after morning shots were fired in the

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early hours of Monday morning. Most of the others died

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from so vocation as a result of a crush during

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the breakout at Macala Prison, he said. In a Vidian

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news statement, the mass escape attempt at Macalus’s Central Prison

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resulted in the loss of life and significant material damage.

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The provisional toll is one hundred and twenty nine dead,

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including twenty four by gunfire after warning. Investigations are underway

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to identify and severely punish those who instigated these acts

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of sabotage. They will receive a stern response, added Justice

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Minister Constant Mutamba, who referred to the situation as the

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premeditated act of sabotage. He also said a fire broke

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out and destroyed the prison’s administrative buildings, registry, hospital and

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food depos Charmani confirmed that the situation was under control.

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The Monday Warning incident led to a call for a

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crisis meeting with the healths of Defense and Security services.

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As war on level bringin you pinned in a more

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digital way.