Police hunt for escaped inmates
Jun 7, 2010
Police hunt for escaped inmates
JAYAPURA (Indonesia) - INDONESIAN police hunted on Monday for 26 prisoners who escaped from jail in Indonesia's Papua province - the second such breakout in less than a month.
The inmates, serving a maximum of 17 years behind bars, used tied-together bed sheets and clothing to scale the 2.5m fence surrounding the Abepura prison in the provincial capital of Jayapura over the weekend.
Liberti Sitinjak, the chief warden, said lazy guards were to blame: Of the seven scheduled to work on Saturday, only three showed up. The escape occurred when all 342 prisoners were let out of their cells to take part in afternoon sporting activities, he said.
Authorities set up roadblocks across the city and stepped up security along the border with Papua New Guinea, he said. Last month, 18 prisoners escaped from the same jail. Only two were recaptured.
Details about the inmates and the crimes they committed were not immediately available. Papua, in the easternmost corner of Indonesia, has been wracked by separatist struggle for more than four decades.
Indonesia took over the province from Dutch colonial rule in 1963. Its sovereignty over the region was formalised in 1969 through a stage-managed vote by about 1,000 community leaders, which critics dismissed as a sham. -- AP
Jun 7, 2010
Police hunt for escaped inmates
JAYAPURA (Indonesia) - INDONESIAN police hunted on Monday for 26 prisoners who escaped from jail in Indonesia's Papua province - the second such breakout in less than a month.
The inmates, serving a maximum of 17 years behind bars, used tied-together bed sheets and clothing to scale the 2.5m fence surrounding the Abepura prison in the provincial capital of Jayapura over the weekend.
Liberti Sitinjak, the chief warden, said lazy guards were to blame: Of the seven scheduled to work on Saturday, only three showed up. The escape occurred when all 342 prisoners were let out of their cells to take part in afternoon sporting activities, he said.
Authorities set up roadblocks across the city and stepped up security along the border with Papua New Guinea, he said. Last month, 18 prisoners escaped from the same jail. Only two were recaptured.
Details about the inmates and the crimes they committed were not immediately available. Papua, in the easternmost corner of Indonesia, has been wracked by separatist struggle for more than four decades.
Indonesia took over the province from Dutch colonial rule in 1963. Its sovereignty over the region was formalised in 1969 through a stage-managed vote by about 1,000 community leaders, which critics dismissed as a sham. -- AP
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