Central Prison Chief Suspended After Foiled Jailbreak in Mogadishu
GOOBJOOG NEWS | MOGADISHU: The Chief of the Somali Correctional Forces, Gen. Mahad Abdirahman Adan has suspended Somalia central prison Chief Brigadier General Dahir Abdulle Rageh.
The move by general Adan comes following an attempted jailbreak by suspected Al-shabaab militant inmates on June 13th.
The correctional forces chief also formed an eight-member committee to investigate the incident so as to avert a similar attempt in future.
Gen. Mohamed Hussein Ahmed was appointed the acting prison chief and will lead the investigation.
Gen. Mahad Abdirahman Adan also appointed General Mohamed Hussein Ahmed as the acting commander of the Central Prison during the ongoing investigation.
Somali security forces foiled an attempted jailbreak in Mogadishu’s main central prison after militant inmates, using pistols and hand grenades, attacked prison guards.
A spokesperson for the Somali Custodial Corps, Abdiqani Mohamed Khalaf, told reporters in Mogadishu that three prison guards were killed, and three others were injured in the attack.
Khalaf added that all five inmates who were fatally shot had been convicted of involvement in militant bombings and smuggling explosives in Mogadishu.
Four of them were on death row, and the fifth inmate was serving a life sentence.