Five inmates from Huye Prison  known as Karubanda were on Wednesday night shot as they attempted to escape from the facility.The prison is located in Huye District in Southern Province. 

According to Rwandan police spokesperson CP Jean Bosco Kabera  , the incident occurred around 8:30 p.m. Three of these imantes were shot wednesday evening as they were jumping over the prison and fence while the other two were shot thursday around 4 AM  in Rwabuye marshland where they were hiding themselves after escaping the prison fence. 

The police spokesperson said that these inmates actually used ropes to jump over the prison fence and when wardens on duty tried to stop them by shooting in the air, the inmates resisted.

Kabera added that all the inmates were convicts of robbery and were serving varied sentences. One was convicted of armed robbery and serving a 12-year sentence.

Others were serving three and five years.

This is not the first incident where inmates had escaped from this prison. The last jailbreak from the same facility was in 2013 when four men escaped by digging a hole through one of the prison walls.

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