96 escape from prison in Ivory Coast
In September 2017, about 100 inmates escaped from a prison in the central town of Katiola. They were said to be followers of the late leader of a prison mutiny in 2016, Coulibaly Yacouba. Yacouba who was locked up since 2012 for assassination and murder was killed in February 2016 during an attempted jailbreak at Ivory Coast’s main detention centre in Abidjan. This left ten people dead, with 21 others escaping.
“The inmates went through the roof of their cells to get to other cells and took advantage of workers leaving to break the main gate and flee,” a judicial source told news site News24.
A month before this, five prisoners escaped from a jail in the south-central city of Gagnoa. Four prison guards and one civilian were arrested for allegedly aiding the inmates.
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