KHAIRPUR: Two prisoners escape

Published January 31, 2004

KHAIRPUR, Jan 30: Two prisoners of the central jail managed to escape from outside the sessions court here on Friday.

Sources said the police took some prisoners to the courts for their hearings. They added that two murder accused - Yasin, son of Ghulam Hussain Kalhoro, and Marchand - escapedwhile a dispute was taking place between prisoners of the Chandio and the Maitlo tribes.

The police came to know about the escaped prisoners only when they took the prisoners back to the jail and on counting them, found two missing, the sources added.

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