More than 100 inmates escape prison in Congo (BLOG)

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — An official in Congo says more than 100 people escaped from a jail in the country's second prison break this month.

Kasai Occidental governor Hubert Kabasubabu Katulondji said Monday that 114 prisoners fled the prison in Tshikapa Sunday as an ill prisoner was being taken to the hospital.

He says police have captured 90 escaped convicts and that one inmate died.

However, Tshikapa resident Henri Tshibuyi says two people died. He says one prisoner was shot dead and another died after being wounded.

Prisoners at the facility had complained previously over a lack of food and water at the prison.

Nearly 970 prisoners escaped from a prison in the city of Lubumbashi earlier this month.