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Police increasingly suspect jailers aided prisoner escape — report

8 September 2021, 8:10 pm
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Police have information that is increasing suspicions that jailers aided the six security prisoners to escape Gilboa Prison early Monday, Kan news reports.

The report says two Prisons Service members will be questioned under caution tomorrow in connection with the decision-making that led to the incident.

A prison guard stands at the Gilboa prison in northern Israel, Monday, Sept. 6, 2021. Israeli forces on Monday launched a massive manhunt in northern Israel and the West Bank after several highly dangerous Palestinian security prisoners escaped overnight from the high-security facility. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

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