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A big news is coming from the African country Democratic Republic of Congo. According to reports, dozens of prisoners have died while trying to escape from prisons in the country's capital Kinshasa. Reporting on the incident, the government said that at least 129 people were killed while trying to escape from Kinshasa's central Makala prison on Monday. Giving this information on Tuesday, Home Minister Shabani Luku said that 24 out of 129 deaths were due to firing.
'Not a single prisoner could escape'
Congo's interior minister said, 'The rest of the prisoners died in the incident due to being pushed or suffocated.' He said that the prison's administrative building, its food depot and a hospital also caught fire, injuring about 59 people. In a statement released through video, he said, 'Many people lost their lives and there was a lot of damage while trying to escape from Makala Central Jail.' Earlier, a prison official had said that not a single prisoner managed to escape. He also said that those who tried to escape were killed. The government is investigating the incident.
The incident happened on Sunday morning
According to reports, this incident happened at 2 am local time on Sunday night. Giving information about this, the prisoners in the jail told that in the morning they heard the sound of heavy firing and they also heard the voices of the prisoners. Let us tell you that Congo is one of the poorest countries in the world, although there are large amounts of minerals present here. The country became independent on 30 June 1960 and since independence, the country has been struggling with various internal conflicts.