Top crime suspect, 10 others flee Maguindanao jail
-A A +ATuesday, July 10, 2012
MANILA – Police said 11 detainees including the leader of a notorious rebel group have escaped from a jail by cutting through iron grills with a smuggled hacksaw.
The fugitives include Datukan Samad, a high-profile suspect facing kidnapping and murder charges in the southern Philippines. He has been linked to Muslim rebels.
Samad was transferred to the Maguindanao Provincial Jail in Cotabato City following a failed attempt to spring him from another jail in February that left three people dead, including a Red Cross driver.
Cotabato Police Chief Danny Reyes said the fugitives sawed through iron bars in the jail's bathroom and escaped early Tuesday. A manhunt is underway.
The escape happened a day after President Benigno Aquino III lauded jail authorities for tightening notoriously lax security in prisons. (AP)
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