In Ahmedabad, cops probe Sabarmati jail staff after jailbreak attempt
Press Trust of India | Tuesday February 12, 2013
Sabarmati prison staff were today under the scanner of the cops investigating the daring jailbreak attempt by serial blasts accused amid questions how iron rods and the jail map found its way into the barrack and the tunnel digging work went undetect...
18-foot tunnel at Ahmedabad prison exposes escape plan
Reported by Rohit Bhan | Monday February 11, 2013
An 18-foot tunnel has been discovered at the Sabarmati prison in Ahmedabad.
132 convicts break out of Mexican prison
Agence France-Presse | Tuesday September 18, 2012
At least 132 convicts escaped from a Mexican prison near the US border on Monday, fleeing through a tunnel they dug in the old carpentry workshop, the state prosecutor's office said.
'Surprise' as Iraq inmates dig 80 metres to escape
Agence-France Presse | Saturday January 7, 2012
Eleven inmates in north Iraq dug an 80-metre (260-foot) underground tunnel without the authorities' knowledge and escaped to freedom on Saturday, the "surprised" prison's governor said.
