Dhaka:
Round 700 Bangladeshi jail inmates have been nonetheless at the run after mass jailbreaks over the summer time all through the student-led revolution that ousted autocratic ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina, government mentioned Wednesday.
Sheikh Hasina fled in August to India, the place she stays, as her executive collapsed on the height of a well-liked insurrection.
Within the weeks prior to her departure, revolts or sieges by way of protesters at 5 prisons across the Muslim-majority country noticed kind of 2,200 inmates get away in their cells.
Prisons leader Syed Mohammad Motaher Hossain advised newshounds that round 1,500 of that quantity had since been captured, with the rest nonetheless at massive.
Hossain mentioned that a minimum of 70 fugitives have been both “terrorists” or “dying row convicts”.
Masses of other people marched on a prison within the town of Narsingdi east of the capital Dhaka on July 19, surroundings the ability on fireplace and surroundings masses of inmates unfastened.
4 extra prisons have been additionally attacked within the following weeks together with a top safety facility at Kashimpur, house to probably the most nation’s maximum infamous criminals.
Police spokesman Imam Hossain Sagar mentioned efforts to trace the rest escapees have been ongoing.
“We have now steered the entire police stations to stick alert and arrest the escaped prisoners,” he mentioned.
Sagar added that police have been additionally carefully tracking a number of “best terrorists” granted bail by way of courts following Hasina’s ouster.
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