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Fire engulfs Tanjung Gusta Prison, hundreds of prisoners flee
The North Sumatra police said 200 prisoners had managed to flee incarceration at Tanjung Gusta Prison in Medan due to a fire that devastated the facility on Thursday night
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heNorth Sumatra police said 200 prisoners had managed to fleeincarceration at Tanjung Gusta Prison in Medan due to a fire that devastated thefacility on Thursday night.
The fire was allegedly started by inmates around 7 p.m., who were angered by an outage of water and electricity at the prison.
Hundreds
of police officers, helped by local residents, guarded the surrounding
area to catch the escaping inmates.
National Police spokesperson Insp. Gen. Ronny F. Sompie said the police had deployed personnel from the North Sumatera Police, the Medan Police and local police precincts to secure the scene.
'We
are focusing on capturing the inmates. The North Sumatera Police's Mobile
Brigade [Brimob], Sabhara rapid response unit, crime and intelligence
unit are now at the
location,'
he said.
Ronny said that to date 12 terrorist convicts had been detained but gave no further details.
North Sumatra police chief Insp. Gen. Syarief Gunawan said the police had managed to arrest 10 inmates ' one was a terrorist convict, as quoted by tribunnews.com.(hrl/dic)
