KAMPALA – Prisoners in a Ugandan jail overpowered their guards and 219 of them escaped with at least 15 guns, but two were killed after security forces launched an operation to recapture them, a military spokeswoman said Thursday.
The inmates escaped late on Wednesday from a jail in Karamoja, said spokeswoman Brigadier Flavia Byekwaso.
Before fleeing, they broke into the prison armory and stole 15 AK-47 rifles, 20 magazines, and other ammunition.
“It’s a mass escape. These were hard-core criminals,” she said, adding they included murderers, robbers, and rapists.
A big security operation was underway to recapture them and two of the inmates had been killed in the pursuit while two were re-arrested, she said.(CNN)
