129 Dead in Congo Prison Jailbreak

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Inmates at the overcrowded Makala prison had sought to escape their suffocating cells after water and power went out. At least 129 were killed, some two dozen of them shot dead, the government said.
Elian Peltier, Sanjana Varghese and Malachy Browne
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