34 prisoners escaped on Sunday (September 24th) from the Mwenga prison in South Kivu province. According to the Administrator of Mwenga Territory Désiré Masumbuko, quoted by AFP, these detainees, including 27 convicted of rape and others for theft and murder, took advantage of the rain to break through the prison wall.
« Our services have just recovered three escapees. 31 others are still in the wild, » said Masumbuko, adding that in this prison « prison conditions are deplorable » because « of the lack of food and medicines that are no longer provided « by the State.
Several cases of escapes were recorded this year in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The first one is that of the Central Prison of Makala, last May 17, with more than 4,000 escaped.
At the beginning of June, nearly 900 prisoners had escaped from the prison of the city of Beni, in North Kivu. On September 3, 119 prisoners had escaped from Kabinda Prison, in Lomami Province.