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| Brazilian Inmates Dig Escape Tunnel |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/20/2006 |
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Forty-four inmates escaped last week through a 130-foot-long tunnel under a prison in Brazil's remote Amazon jungle state of Rondonia, law enforcement officials said. Seven of the prisoners who fled the Urso Panda prison in Porto Velhohad, about 1,500 miles northwest of Sao Paulo, had been recaptured, said state police spokesman Lenilson Guedes. "They are highly dangerous criminals who were serving time for rape, murder and armed robbery, among other crimes," Guedes said. "The prisoners first connected five of the prison's 14 cells by smashing large holes through the walls that separated them," Guedes said. "Then, they gathered in one of the cells and crawled through a tunnel that they apparently had been digging for weeks, if not months." Guedes said it was not immediately known if officers had heard any suspicious noises before the escape occurred. |
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