According to reports, the prisoners managed to overpower the guards at the facility and escaped with a number of AK47 rifles.

According to Mozambican journalist Bright Sonjela, protesters seem to have taken advantage of the volatile situation in the country and apparently helped some prisoner escape from custody.

“People have taken advantage of the protests. Since they started protesting about the results of the general elections, these protesters have been going to prisons and releasing others. So this just happened when the government said they were going to release some of the prisoners,” says Sonjela.

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