In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, security forces have commenced a search for more than 800 inmates who were released by armed rebels in a jailbreak on Wednesday.
According to the army and other sources, the attack on the Kakwangura central jail in North Kivu province resulted in the deaths of two police officers and one insurgent.
However, according to sources, about fugitives have been apprehended.
The jailbreak, which is said to have released a rebel leader, is being attributed to fighters of the ADF, a group associated with the Islamic State.
The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a brutal militia that the Islamic State group claims is its regional affiliate, were identified as the suspects on Twitter, according to a reputable US-based watchdog, the Kivu Security Tracker (KST).
Thousands of killings in eastern DRC, particularly in the Beni region, as well as assaults in neighboring Uganda have been attributed to the ADF.
The eastern region of the DRC, a sizable nation the size of continental western Europe, has long been unstable.
Numerous armed factions are present throughout the area as a result of two regional wars that broke out around the turn of the 20th century.