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| 350 inmates escape Haitian prison |
| By CNN |
| Published: 02/28/2005 |
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More than 350 detainees escaped from Haiti's largest prison Feb. 19, after armed masked men in two vans broke through barricades and attacked the facility, according to police and eyewitness reports. Most of the prisoners who fled from the National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince remained at large late that night, but order had been restored at the prison, police said. The motive for the attack remains unclear. Police said at least one officer was killed, and a hospital source told CNN that a total of 15 people had died. As the attack began, prison officers spirited to safety two high-profile prisoners -- former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune and former Interior Minister Jocelerme Privet. U.N. personnel took them into protective custody and later turned them back over to Haitian police, said Damien Onses-Cardona, spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping force in Haiti. At the time of the escape, about 1,000 people were being held in the prison, which was designed to hold 600. It is near Haiti's presidential palace. |
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