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Two Bali foreign inmates caught in Timor Leste
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Fugitive: A poster bearing pictures of four foreign inmates who escaped from Kerobokan Penitentiary on Monday is displayed at a mini market in Bali.
(JP/Ni Komang Erviani)
Two foreign inmates who escaped from Kerobokan Penitentiary in Bali on Monday have been arrested in Dili, Timor Leste.
Bali Police spokesperson Adj. Sr. Comr. Hengky Widjaja confirmed their arrests. "The two inmates have been apprehended. They are Sayed Muhammad Said, an Indian national, and Bulgarian citizen Dimitar Nikolov Iliev,” he told The Jakarta Post on Thursday.
Authorities are still pursuing two other inmates, Australian Shaun Edward Davidson and Malaysian Tee Kok King Bin Tee Kim Sai.
(Read also: Police question witnesses following Kerobokan prison escape)
Badung Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Yudith S. Hananta also confirmed the arrests. "We are coordinating on when they will be brought to Bali," he said separately.
Yudith said two other inmates who remained at large were still being hunted down.
As reported earlier, the four inmates escaped from Kerobokan Penitentiary on Monday. They escaped through a tunnel they dug. During the investigation, authorities found a 15-meter long tunnel with a diameter of 60 centimeters.
The Badung Police in Bali are questioning 12 inmates and prison guards as witnesses in relation to the jailbreak.
“Ten witnesses being questioned are Kerobokan prison guards while two others are friends of the escapees,” Adj.Comr. Mikael Hutabarat, chief of the Badung Police’s criminal investigation unit, said as quoted by Antara on Wednesday. (ebf)
