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| Over 60 Make Great Escape From Manila Jail |
| By Reuters |
| Published: 03/05/2001 |
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Sixty-one convicts, many of them incarcerated for rape and murder, escaped from a jail in the southern Philippines after boring a tunnel to freedom from their cell block, prison officials said Thursday. Of those who escaped from the district jail in the province of Agusan del Sur during a downpour Wednesday night, nine were recaptured and two shot and killed by officers, the officials said. The mass escape began after dinner and lasted until about midnight. Only one person at a time could pass through the tunnel, which apparently had been built over several months. After dinner, many of the prisoners sang and others played cards, while some began slipping out through the tunnel. The escape was discovered several hours later, the officials said. |
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