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Hundreds of drug addicts escape Vietnam rehab
More than 400 Vietnamese drug addicts have escaped from a rehabilitation center where they were detained to receive compulsory treatment, a local official said Monday
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ore than 400 Vietnamese drug addicts have escaped froma rehabilitation center where they were detained to receive compulsorytreatment, a local official said Monday.
The detainees, many wielding sticks, broke free from the center near the port city of Haiphong in northeast Vietnam late Sunday.
'More than 400 inmates fled after breaking the door and threatened the guards of the center with sticks,' Nguyen Huy Hoang, an official from Thuy Nguyen district -- where the center is located -- told AFP.
Police found some of the addicts back at their homes, while around 30 others voluntarily returned to the treatment center. 'The police are searching for those who are still at large,' in Haiphong, the third largest city in Vietnam, Hoang added.
