299 communist guerrilla captives escape India jail
"Inmates overpowered the prison guards and fled amid gunfire" -AP
Mon, Dec 17, 2007
AP (Associated Press)
NEW DELHI - NEARLY 300 communist rebels and their supporters escaped in a daring jailbreak Sunday in restive eastern India, police said.
'The inmates overpowered the prison guards and fled amid gunfire,' Rahul Sharma, the superintendent of police, told the New Delhi Television news channel.
Sharma said 299 of the 377 inmates fled from Dantewada prison, nearly 560 kilometres south of Raipur, the capital of Chhattisgarh state. -- AP