NATIONAL NEWS - A manhunt has been launched for 16 awaiting-trial prisoners who escaped from the Johannesburg Correctional Centre, also known as Sun City, in Naturena this morning at around 3am.
“They escaped through a pipe shaft and used an object to break the wall‚ then proceeded to the fence‚” department of correctional services spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo told Times Live.
The department has appealed to the public to assist with any information that could lead to the re-arrest of the prisoners.
16 prisoners escape from Joburg’s Sun City prison
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Posted on: 11:28 Mon, 09 April 2018
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