Dozens of inmates escape Haiti prison
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As many as 30 inmates escaped through a small hole in a prison wall in the latest of several breakouts from Haiti's largest penitentiary, police said Tuesday.
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SAN SALVADOR -- Homemade grenades started exploding midmorning Aug. 18 at La Esperanza, El Salvador's largest prison, and the 3,200 inmates locked inside the overcrowded cage stampeded to escape the blasts and the fireballs.
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Six French charity workers convicted in Chad of attempting to kidnap 103 children flew out of the central African country on Friday to serve out their sentences in France.
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Hundreds of people have fled a village in the southern Philippines after troops stormed a Muslim rebel base, hunting for dozens of prisoners who escaped from jail earlier this month, the rebels and officials said on Monday.
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An armed group fired on a police station in northwestern Haiti on Saturday, prompting officers to flee while prisoners escaped and more than 100 people started a flurry of looting, officials said.
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Yangon - Three truckloads of inmates rolled out of Myanmar&#39;s main jail on Friday, a day after the military regime announced it was expanding its prisoner release programme to more than 9 000 people, a correspondent saw.
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KABUL -- Afghan troops stormed a notorious prison in a hail of gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades yesterday, ending a 10-hour standoff that began when four inmates once suspected of belonging to Al Qaeda tried to escape. Four inmates and four guards were killed in the day's violence.
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Thousands of people fled Central America's Caribbean coast on Monday to escape the powerful winds and torrential rains of Hurricane Felix, but many others were left to ride out the approaching storm.
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Hundreds of federal police and soldiers seized control over the nation's top-security prison Friday amid reports of a planned escape, possible murder plots and a jailhouse alliance between two reputed drug trafficking kingpins.
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Gunmen who held dozens of hostages inside a Venezuelan bank for more than a day fled in an ambulance but were caught Tuesday along a roadside, where they surrendered and freed their last five captives.
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PARIS, Dec. 28 -- Six French charity workers who were sentenced earlier this week in Chad to eight years of hard labor for attempting to kidnap 103 African children were released from prison Friday and flown to France, ostensibly to serve out their sentences at home.
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A convicted triple-murderer escaped from the Kentucky State Reformatory early Tuesday but was quickly caught, corrections officials said.
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Two inmates escape from prison by scaling a fence with a homemade ladder.
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Up to 1,200 criminals were being released from the overcrowded prison system today as the government's early release scheme came into effect.
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Kabul, Dec 18 - Afghan troops stormed a prison in Kabul on Friday evening, ending a deadly ten-hour standoff. The stand off began when four inmates, once suspected of belonging to the Al-Qaida terror organisation, attempted a break out.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Enraged supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide armed themselves and roamed a downtown slum, threatening to behead foreigners after UN peacekeepers and Haitian police arrested dozens of people yesterday.
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A nephew of Saddam Hussein serving a life sentence for making bombs for Iraq's insurgency escaped from prison Saturday in northern Iraq, authorities said.