Iraq prison break 40 inmate escaped and left 30 dead

Iraq 30 prisoners killed and 40 inmates escaped all convicted for terrorism. The Forty inmates in a prison in northeastern Iraq, including some convicted of terrorism charges, escaped amid a riot that killed at least six police officers and 30 prisoners, on Saturday of May 2015. Some sources put the number of casualties and fugitives much higher, saying as many as 200 inmates escaped.that the inmates escaped after guards investigating a fight overpowered and disarmed. Some of the fugitives had been convicted on terrorism charges.