Escaped Murderers Used Turbans to Scale Prison Walls

(Quetta, Pakistan) Seven convicted murderers serving long sentences escaped from Mach Central Jail by unraveling their turbans to help in scaling the prison walls. Eight prison officials were immediately suspended. Interestingly, Mach Central Jail had 10 prisoners break out in 2002.

Although the Mach Central Jail is in western Pakistan and not far from the Afghanistan border, none of the escapees are known to be involved in terrorism or sectarian violence, said the Balochistan Minister of Prisons Mir Habibur Rehman Hasni.