Monday, April 7, 2014

Somalia: 15 overseas convicted pirates escaped from Puntland Prison


Bossaso main priosn

BOSSASO, Puntland - According local media 15 overseas convicted pirates handed to the authorities in Puntalnd regional administration of Somalia have managed to escaped from Bossaso main prison last Friday.

Puntland Custodian Corps Chief Gen. Ali Nur Omar speaking to local media said "Of the fifteen inmates who escaped from Bossaso prison last Friday, thirteen are still on the run. Security agencies are hunting down the escapees,"


"The men were transferred from a cell after rainwater penetrated through its sheet metal roof, they were placed in another detention but they got a small hole on the wall," he revealed.

Bossaso central prison holds 45 oversees convicted pirates who were handed over to Puntland after being tried in foreign countries. Before two months two of these inmates sustained bullet wounds during the prison break attempt in the port city of Bossaso. 

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