The escape of 1,500 inmates from a Mozambique prison left 33 dead

In Mozambique, at least 1,534 inmates escaped from the central high-security prison in Maputo, killing 33 people. This was reported on December 25 by the Portuguese agency Lusa.

The escape occurred during the riots after the announcement of the results of the presidential election. It is noted that it was planned, responsibility for the incident is attributed to the protesters after the election.

The exact number of prisoners and other details are being clarified, the publication notes.

Earlier, on November 2, it was reported that thousands of prisoners in the UK, released under the new early release scheme, were re-imprisoned. Before that, in October, it became known about the early release of 1.1 thousand prisoners in the UK.