Horrific scenes saw over 160 women raped and children dead in fires after the prison break at Munzenze near Goma last Monday amid an offensive by M23 rebels backed by Rwanda

During the Goma jailbreak, several women were assaulted by male inmates, while the majority perished when the prisoners set the facility on fire.

HUNDREDS of women were raped and then burnt alive after Rwandan-backed rebels stormed a female prison in Congo. The atrocity happened in the city of Goma when freed male prisoners turned on the

Amid the fighting in Congo, hundreds of female inmates were raped and burnt alive during a jailbreak in Goma. As per the United Nations, hundreds of prisoners broke out of the Munzenze prison after the Rwanda-backed M23 Rebel group took over the Congolese capital.

Hundreds of Congolese women were raped and burnt alive after Rwandan-backed militants raided a prison. The female inmates were attacked in their wing inside Goma’s Munzenze prison during a mass jailbreak, UN peacekeeping chief Vivian van de Perre said.

At least 165 women were raped by male inmates during a mass breakout from a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the United Nations.

More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a United Nations spokesperson has said.

Footage from the jailbreak shows people fleeing from the building as black smoke rises into the air More than 100 female prisoners were raped and then burned alive during a jailbreak in the Congolese city of Goma,