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More than 100 women raped and burned alive during Goma jailbreak
Red Cross personnel load bodies of victims of the fighting between Congolese government forces and M23 rebels in a truck in Goma, February 3, 2025, as the U.N. health agency said 900 died in the fight

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.

A leaked internal UN document said that 165 women prisoners were assaulted by male inmates during the jailbreak before being killed after the prison was set ablaze.

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