more than 120 people were killed during an attempted Mass breakout from Malala Central Prison in canasa Democratic Republic of the Congo this is amid ongoing attacks on the country's prison system now the incident occurred early Monday morning involving gunfire and fires that destroyed several prison buildings most of the deaths resulted from Suffocation and gunfire over 12 ,000 inmates were held in the overcrowded facility that was built for just 1500 the DRC government has launched investigations and the Justice Minister has barred inmate transfers to the prison CNN has reported prison Briggs are common in the DRC with multiple violent incidents in recent years