IS Prisoners Escape Prison Following Earthquake

At least 20 mostly Islamic State group members escaped prison in northwest Syria on Monday when the earthquake hit the country, AFP reported.

The military police prison in the town of Rajo near the Turkish border holds about 2,000 inmates.

“After the earthquake struck, Rajo was affected and inmates started to mutiny and took control of parts of the prison,” said the official at Rajo jail, which is controlled by pro-Turkish factions.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said it could not verify whether prisoners had escaped, but confirmed there was a mutiny.

IS overran large swathes of Syria and neighboring Iraq in 2014, proclaiming a “caliphate” in the land it controlled.

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