Around 20 suspected members of jihadist group Islamic State managed to escape from a prison in northern Syria on Monday following a riot in the wake of earthquakes in southern Turkey, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Tuesday.
The London-based body, with informants in the Arab country, said the inmates managed to escape from Rajo prison, controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and located in northern Aleppo province.
Sources quoted by the Observatory have indicated that the escape would have taken place «with the direct complicity of prison employees in exchange for the payment of money», without the Kurdish authorities in the region having pronounced themselves for now on what happened.
The SDF, whose main member is the Kurdish militia People’s Protection Units (YPG), control several prisons and IDP camps in northern and northeastern Syria that host thousands of alleged members of the Islamic State.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
