00:00 At least nine people were killed during an armed jailbreak in Guinea at the weekend in
00:05 which a former president was briefly freed, the Ministry of Justice said in a statement
00:09 on Monday.
00:11 Former military ruler Musa Dadis Kamara and three other officials were broken out of a
00:15 central prison by heavily armed men early on Saturday, prompting a nationwide manhunt.
00:22 He was back in Conakry's central house prison by the end of the day.
00:27 In a provisional assessment of the incident, the Justice Ministry said three assailants
00:31 and four members of Guinea's defence force were among the dead.
00:35 Six others were being treated for gunshot wounds in hospital.
00:40 Kamara and others have been on trial since last year.
00:44 They are accused of orchestrating a stadium massacre and mass rape by Guinean security
00:49 forces in which 150 people were killed during a pro-democracy rally in 2009.
00:55 Kamara has denied responsibility, blaming the atrocities on errant soldiers.
01:00 (inaudible)
