More than 100 female inmates of an African prison were raped and burned alive during a jailbreak, the United Nations said. The incident occurred in the Congolese city of Goma after M23 rebels captured the urban centre in a lightning raid last week.

Masses of inmates escaped Goma’s Munzenze prison last Monday as M23 rebels took over the city - with female prisoners reportedly attacked in their wing before it was set on fire

MORE than 100 women were raped and burned alive during a jailbreak in the wartorn city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the United Nations reported today. The attack took place as hundreds of prisoners broke out from the Munzenze prison on Monday as soldiers from the Rwandan-backed M23 militia began taking over the city.

More than 100 female prisoners were raped and then burnt alive during a jailbreak in the Congolese city of Goma, according to the UN. Hundreds of prisoners broke out of Munzenze prison last Monday, after fighters from the M23 rebel group began to take over the city.

HUNDREDS of women were raped and then burnt alive after Rwandan-backed rebels stormed a female prison in Congo. The atrocity happened in the city of Goma when freed male prisoners turned on the

Amid the fighting in Congo, hundreds of female inmates were raped and burnt alive during a jailbreak in Goma. As per the United Nations, hundreds of prisoners broke out of the Munzenze prison after the Rwanda-backed M23 Rebel group took over the Congolese capital.

Hundreds of Congolese women were raped and burnt alive after Rwandan-backed militants raided a prison. The female inmates were attacked in their wing inside Goma’s Munzenze prison during a mass jailbreak, UN peacekeeping chief Vivian van de Perre said.

At least 165 women were raped by male inmates during a mass breakout from a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the United Nations.