The overflowing of the Yuca River that borders the Victoria Penitentiary, the principal jail of the DR, resulted in the escape of an undetermined number of prisoners, and several dead including a police man who tried to stop the escaping prisoners. The Police had tried to get the inmates to abandon the jail, but several resisted and were there when the waters of the river overflowed. The inmates did not want to abandon Victoria, where they have businesses and make their livelihood. Air photos of the jail showed flooded first floors of the different pavilions of the jail. The area was policed by jet skis.
