More than 100 women raped and burned alive in DR Congo, UN says

More than 100 females were raped and then burned as a prison was broken in the Congolese city of Guma, according to the United Nations.

Hundreds of prisoners erupted from the Monsinzi prison last Monday, after fighters from the M23 rebel group began controlling the city.

Between 165 and 167 women were assaulted by male prisoners during the prison break, says an internal document of the United Nations that the BBC saw.

The report states that most women were killed after prisoners set fire to prison.

The BBC was unable to verify the reports.

Goma, a major city of more than a million people, was arrested after Rwanda -backed M23 has rapidly made progress across the eastern Congo.

The city was immersed in chaos, as it is said that the bodies in the streets and missiles fly over residential houses.

Footage of the jailbreak last week showed people fleeing the building while smoke rose in the background. Heavy fire can also be heard.

in A separate video clip, believes that people are the prisoners who fledIt was presented in the streets of Juma.

The United Nations says at least 2,900 people were killed during the fighting, as 2000 bodies and 900 other people were buried in the city in the city.

Earlier this week, the rebels announced the ceasefire on the humanitarian foundations.

However, the M23 launched a new attack on Wednesday, sources said, according to what was seized on the mining NYABIBE.

NYABIBE is about 100 km (60 miles) from Bukavu – the second largest city in the east, and the amount amounting to the last progress of the rebels.

The Congolese authorities recruited hundreds of civilian volunteers to help defend Bocafo.

Once again in Goma, WHThe population adapts to life under M23There are fears of cholera outbreaks.

“The access to the water has been cut for several days, and the bodies were lying in the streets and diseases transmitted by water such as cholera,” said Stefan Jwegper, a regional progress of charitable charity, said.

“Some of our cholera treatment centers are full and expanded.”