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| Western Australia prison escape prompts warnings for residents to lock doors | Western Australia prison escape prompts warnings for residents to lock doors |
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| Four men remain on the run after a mass escape from a maximum security jail in Western Australia’s mid west and residents and drivers are being warned to lock their doors and windows. | Four men remain on the run after a mass escape from a maximum security jail in Western Australia’s mid west and residents and drivers are being warned to lock their doors and windows. |
| The escape occurred during a disturbance at the Greenough regional prison, which houses men and women, near Geraldton on Tuesday afternoon, WA police said. | The escape occurred during a disturbance at the Greenough regional prison, which houses men and women, near Geraldton on Tuesday afternoon, WA police said. |
| A sixth inmate was taken into custody on Wednesday, leaving four still at large: Bradley Silvester, 35; Alan McDonald, 28; Brendan Bartley, 22, and 18-year-old Darryl Councillor, according to police. | A sixth inmate was taken into custody on Wednesday, leaving four still at large: Bradley Silvester, 35; Alan McDonald, 28; Brendan Bartley, 22, and 18-year-old Darryl Councillor, according to police. |
| Assistant Commissioner for regional WA, Murray Smallpage, warned the men were considered “unpredictable”, but reassured Geraldton residents police were doing all they could to hunt down them down. | |
| The men are believed to still be in the Geraldton area and Smallpage warned residents and drivers to lock their doors and windows. | |
| “They are well-known,” he told ABC Perth. “They have family up there. If any family - if any community members - know of these men, we’d encourage them to (get them to) surrender to police as soon as they can.” | |
| An extra 150 police have been sent to Geraldton to help the large-scale effort, including specialist investigators, the dog squad, tactical response officers and the air wing. | |
| It is believed some inmates climbed on to a roof and others scaled a perimeter fence just after 4pm when prison officers went to extinguish a cell fire and “lost control of part of the prison”, corrective services commissioner Tony Hassall told the West Australian. | It is believed some inmates climbed on to a roof and others scaled a perimeter fence just after 4pm when prison officers went to extinguish a cell fire and “lost control of part of the prison”, corrective services commissioner Tony Hassall told the West Australian. |
| “It started with a cell fire and then there were a couple of other fires lit in the prison,” he said. | “It started with a cell fire and then there were a couple of other fires lit in the prison,” he said. |
| “They broke into some staff offices, got some equipment and used that to cause some damage. From the information I have, they got some equipment and scaled the perimeter fence. | “They broke into some staff offices, got some equipment and used that to cause some damage. From the information I have, they got some equipment and scaled the perimeter fence. |
| “We’ll do a full investigation into exactly what happened and what the causes were.” | “We’ll do a full investigation into exactly what happened and what the causes were.” |
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