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Botched jail break kills 9

NINE inmates were killed in a botched prison break in the Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday after one of them pulled the pin on a grenade but didn't throw it, a police official said.

The incident follows a rash of prison violence and escapes in the central African country, including the escape of nearly 1,000 detainees from a high security prison in September.

"The civilian (prisoner) did not know how to use a grenade, he pulled the pin out but didn't throw it," the provincial chief of police, General Gaston Luzembo, told Reuters.

He said 50 people were wounded in the incident in a prison in the eastern city of Bukavu, and that an investigation was looking into how the inmate had got the grenade.

Luzembo added that a jailed ex-colonel appeared to be among the masterminds of the attempted escape.

A witness said the early morning explosion at the jail was followed by gunfire and some inmates who had suffered serious injuries were being treated at a local hospital.


 

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