Suspected Islamists free 1,300 prisoners from east Congo jail
ERIKAS MWISI KAMBALE ARMED men freed more than 1,300 prisoners from a jail in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in a coordinated attack yesterday, the town's mayor said, blaming an Islamist militant group operating in the area. Only 110 of 1,456 inmates, including a number of militia fighters, remained following the simultaneous early-morning assaults on the Kangbayi central prison in Beni and the military camp defending it, said Modeste Bakwanamaha. "The attackers, who came in large numbers, managed to break the door with electrical equipment," Bakwanamaha told Reuters. "We believe it was the ADF who did this." The Allied Democratic…