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Eight prisoners escape from India jail after killing guard Bhopal prison escapees killed by police
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Eight prisoners have escaped from a jail in the central Indian city of Bhopal after killing a guard and scaling the wall using bed sheets. Eight prisoners who escaped from a high-security jail in the central Indian city of Bhopal have been killed, police say.
Police say the men, reportedly activists of an outlawed Islamist group, slit the guard's throat. The inmates, members of an outlawed Islamist group, escaped just hours earlier after killing a prison guard.
The police have launched an operation to hunt down the fugitives. Police said they killed the fugitives outside the city in Madhya Pradesh state after they resisted arrest.
Last year two prisoners escaped from India's maximum security Tihar jail in Delhi by digging a tunnel under a wall and scaling another. Last year, two people escaped from Delhi's maximum security Tihar jail by digging a tunnel under a wall.
Senior police official Bhopal Rama Singh told the Press Trust of India agency that the eight men escaped from the main prison in Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh state early on Monday. Prison break: Four unusual ways Indians have escaped jail
The eight men escaped the prison in Bhopal, by using bed sheets to scale a wall, senior police official Bhopal Rama Singh told the Press Trust of India news agency.
He said the men belonged to the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (Simi), a group that has been linked to a series of bomb blasts in the past.He said the men belonged to the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (Simi), a group that has been linked to a series of bomb blasts in the past.
The Indian government blamed the group for blasts in Mumbai in 2003 in which at least 50 people were killed, but Simi has denied the allegations. Simi were blamed by police for bombings of Mumbai commuter trains in 2006 which killed 187 people.
An inquiry has been launched into the escape and the prison's superintendent has been suspended, reports say.
In 2013, seven inmates, including six members of the Simi, escaped from a prison in Madhya Pradesh after breaking through a toilet wall.In 2013, seven inmates, including six members of the Simi, escaped from a prison in Madhya Pradesh after breaking through a toilet wall.
One of the prisoners was later apprehended near the jail in Khandwa district.One of the prisoners was later apprehended near the jail in Khandwa district.