Prisoners Escape

Russian authorities announced a manhunt on Saturday after six convicts tunnelled their way out a correctional facility.

Two prisoners who escaped from the Haridwar district jail had hatched the plan with a third inmate, who also tried to scale the prison wall with them but failed as the ladder fell, police sources said on Sunday.

A prison in Haridwar staged the Ramlila on Friday evening to impart a lesson to its inmates on the victory of good over evil, only to see evil prevail when two prisoners playing the part of 'vaanars' used the event to stage a jailbreak.

Five undertrial prisoners, charged under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, escaped from a prison in Assam after breaking rods and scaling a 20-foot wall using bedsheets, blankets and 'lungis'.

Kenyan police offered a cash reward on Thursday for information leading to the arrest of a suspected serial killer who escaped from a Nairobi police cell.

A 24-year-old undertrial pregnant woman prisoner, who was brought from Bhopal Central Jail to Hamidia Hospital for checkup, escaped on Saturday, an official said.

The attack on a prison van in northern France that left two guards dead and three wounded began at 10:57 am (0857 GMT) and lasted just two minutes.

Gunmen attacked a prison van at a motorway toll in northern France on Tuesday, killing at least two prison officers and freeing a convict who had been jailed last week.

At least 118 inmates escaped from prison after heavy rains on Wednesday night damaged the facility in Suleja near the Nigerian capital, a prison service spokesperson said.

Haiti's government declared on Sunday a state of emergency and a nighttime curfew in a bid to quell a wave of violence sparked by a gang assault on the capital city's main prison that allowed thousands of inmates to escape

A boss from one of Italy's most violent mafias who escaped from a maximum security prison last year has been captured in France, authorities in both countries said on Friday.

The mass 1944 breakout of Allied prisoners of war from the notorious Stalag Luft III camp was famously immortalised by Hollywood.

A Haryana woman has set rather high relationship goals by whisking away her jailed husband from under the noses of three cops.

Ecuadoran President Daniel Noboa ordered military operations on Tuesday against the country's powerful criminal groups after hooded gunmen stormed a television studio and gangsters threatened to execute security forces and civilians.

A prisoner serving life imprisonment has escaped from the open jail of Yerawada Central Prison in Maharashtra's Pune city, police said on Tuesday.

Russian authorities announced a manhunt on Saturday after six convicts tunnelled their way out a correctional facility.

Two prisoners who escaped from the Haridwar district jail had hatched the plan with a third inmate, who also tried to scale the prison wall with them but failed as the ladder fell, police sources said on Sunday.

A prison in Haridwar staged the Ramlila on Friday evening to impart a lesson to its inmates on the victory of good over evil, only to see evil prevail when two prisoners playing the part of 'vaanars' used the event to stage a jailbreak.

Five undertrial prisoners, charged under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, escaped from a prison in Assam after breaking rods and scaling a 20-foot wall using bedsheets, blankets and 'lungis'.

Kenyan police offered a cash reward on Thursday for information leading to the arrest of a suspected serial killer who escaped from a Nairobi police cell.

A 24-year-old undertrial pregnant woman prisoner, who was brought from Bhopal Central Jail to Hamidia Hospital for checkup, escaped on Saturday, an official said.

The attack on a prison van in northern France that left two guards dead and three wounded began at 10:57 am (0857 GMT) and lasted just two minutes.

Gunmen attacked a prison van at a motorway toll in northern France on Tuesday, killing at least two prison officers and freeing a convict who had been jailed last week.

At least 118 inmates escaped from prison after heavy rains on Wednesday night damaged the facility in Suleja near the Nigerian capital, a prison service spokesperson said.

Haiti's government declared on Sunday a state of emergency and a nighttime curfew in a bid to quell a wave of violence sparked by a gang assault on the capital city's main prison that allowed thousands of inmates to escape

A boss from one of Italy's most violent mafias who escaped from a maximum security prison last year has been captured in France, authorities in both countries said on Friday.

The mass 1944 breakout of Allied prisoners of war from the notorious Stalag Luft III camp was famously immortalised by Hollywood.

A Haryana woman has set rather high relationship goals by whisking away her jailed husband from under the noses of three cops.

Ecuadoran President Daniel Noboa ordered military operations on Tuesday against the country's powerful criminal groups after hooded gunmen stormed a television studio and gangsters threatened to execute security forces and civilians.

A prisoner serving life imprisonment has escaped from the open jail of Yerawada Central Prison in Maharashtra's Pune city, police said on Tuesday.