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,

A grim development in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where scores of female prisoners appear to have been raped and burned alive during a jailbreak in Goma. The BBC reports it viewed an internal UN document that said hundreds of male prisoners broke out of Munzenze prison last Monday and assaulted roughly 165 women while doing so.

The Rwanda-backed group known as M23 is believed to have been responsible for the incident following its takeover of the city of Goma