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JAKARTA - A MAN jailed for 19 years for his role in a deadly 2002 bombing in Makassar in Indonesia's South Sulawesi has escaped from prison, an official said on Monday.
'He escaped along with another inmate yesterday (Sunday) morning,' said Mr Imam Suyudi, who heads the Makassar detention centre.
He declined to elaborate, saying that the two men - Wirahadi and Marcus Huwae - fled from the Makassar state jail which shares the same complex but comes under the authority of another official who could not be reached.
Wirahadi was sentenced in 2003 after a court found him guilty of blowing up a local outlet of an international fast food chain in Makassar the previous year that killed three. Huwae is serving a 15-year jail sentence for murder.
The jail's head, Mr Yudotomo, has formed a team to hunt down the escapees, the Kompas newspaper said.
Kompas reported that the two had escaped by climbing the outer walls of the prison using a rope.
Another bomber, Yasmin, who was serving a 20-year term for his role in a 2004 bomb attack on a cafe in South Sulawesi that killed four, escaped from the same jail last year and remains on the loose. -- AFP
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