20 Inmates Killed In Madagascar Prison As They Tried To Escape

Twenty inmates were killed in a shootout with police while trying to flee from the prison in Madagascar on Sunday.

Scores of prisoners attacked guards with rocks and grabbed a gun as they tried to flee the Farafangana prison in the southeast of the Indian Ocean island, it said.

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The police and army moved in, capturing 37 of the 88 escapees, while another 20 were killed and eight wounded in a shootout.

Thirty-one inmates are still on the run, the ministry said, vowing to boost security at all security Plenipotentiary across the country.

“Mass prison escapes are not uncommon in Madagascar. In 2016, around 40 detainees broke out from a high-security prison in Toliary in southern Madagascar” the police said.

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