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At least five people, including two policemen, were killed in an attack on a prison in which about 750 inmates escaped in Congo’s eastern Butembo town, local officials said on Wednesday. Rebels of the Islamist Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) group attacked the Kakwangura prison early on Wednesday during a transfer of prisoners, said Captain Anthony Mwalushay, spokesman for the Congolese army in Beni. Three ADF attackers burned to death in the assault, he said. The rebels launched the attack based on information that women prisoners associated with their group would be transferred from Beni to B…