Survivors of the horrific prison inferno in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo last month have recounted the horrific scenes as male convicts staged a dramatic breakout before raping and burning alive more than 100 women. At least 153 women are believed to have died and as many as 132 were said to have been burned to death as some 4,000 male inmates broke out of the Munzenze prison in Goma during an assault on the city by Rwandan-backed M23 forces. At least two dozen children also burned to death, sources told the BBC. Survivors say they began to die in the inferno when responding soldiers and police began firing tear gas into the women's wing, leaving them with 'almost no way to breathe'. A month on, 22-year-old survivor Nadine told the broadcaster that she had returned to the prison for the first time since the attack on January 27. 'When I sleep at night, everything I've seen here comes back to me,' she said. 'I see the dead again - as many dead bodies as I saw here until I got out. Instead of opening the door, they let us die like animals here.' She said that two men 'came with alcohol' and sought drug people, taking her by force before raping her. She had been jailed over an unpaid debt, she said, but authorities failed to let release her. Female inmates were butchered in their wing in the notoriously overcrowded prison after men forced their way in and went on a rampage. The UN reported that 'all' of the women in the wing were raped. The area reserved for women was then torched to the ground as M23 fighters clashed with the Congolese army in the city, the UN's peacekeeping force in Goma said.