Seventeen convicts escaped from a district jail in Thekkampatti, Theni district, late Monday night after staging a ruse that one inmate suffered from epilepsy and attacking prison personnel.
One prisoner was secured by police from a forest area behind the prison, while seventeen police teams have been formed to nab the remaining escapees and check-posts were set up along neighboring borders.
IGP South Zone Vijayendra S Bidari stated that one prison department employee suffered injuries and was hospitalized, following a mass jailbreak that comes closely after a Puzhal prison escape on October 13.