{"id":21315,"date":"2025-04-19T22:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T16:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=21315"},"modified":"2025-04-19T22:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T16:20:18","slug":"more-than-100-inmates-make-deadly-prison-break-in-chad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/more-than-100-inmates-make-deadly-prison-break-in-chad\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 100 inmates make deadly prison break in Chad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>More than 100 inmates escaped a Chad prison during a shoot-out that left three people dead, and wounded a state governor visiting the facility, officials told AFP on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The break-out occurred late Friday when an uprising happened in the high-security penitentiary five kilometres (three miles) from the town of Mongo, in the centre of the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are around 100 who escaped, three dead and three wounded,&#8221; Hassan Souleymane Adam, secretary general of the Guera province in which Mongo is located, said.<\/p>\n<p>A local Mongo official, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, said prisoners broke into a manager&#8217;s office to steal guns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A shootout with guards ensued, at the same time the governor arrived. He was wounded,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Mongo official confirmed there were three dead, and put the total number of escaped prisoners at 132.<\/p>\n<p>He said the prisoners revolted after complaining about a lack of food.<\/p>\n<p>Chad&#8217;s Justice Minister Youssouf Tom told AFP by telephone that he was about to fly to region and would be able to give &#8220;precise information once I am at Mongo in the coming hours&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 100 inmates escaped a Chad prison during a shoot-out that left three people dead, and wounded a state governor visiting the facility, officials told AFP on Saturday. The break-out occurred late Friday when an uprising happened in the high-security penitentiary five kilometres (three miles) from the town of Mongo, in the centre of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21317,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21315\/revisions\/21317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}