{"id":40158,"date":"2013-07-12T13:36:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T10:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=40158"},"modified":"2013-07-12T13:36:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T10:36:49","slug":"indonesia-prison-break-prisoners-escape-after-riot-video-asia-news-40158","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/indonesia-prison-break-prisoners-escape-after-riot-video-asia-news-40158\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia prison break prisoners escape after riot, Video \/ Asia News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Security forces have retaken control of a crowded prison in western Indonesia where inmates started a massive riot that left five people dead and hundreds of prisoners, including convicted terrorists, on the loose.<\/h1>\n

About 500 policemen and 300 soldiers have been deployed around Tanjung Gusta prison in Medan, the capital of North Sumatra, where the riot broke out on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Fire brigades have also been battling fires started by prisoners which had engulfed the jail.<\/p>\n

Prison directorate spokesman Akbar Hadi said the situation is now under control after soldiers entered the prison without resistance.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of policemen have blocked roads linking Medan to the provinces of Aceh, Jambi and West Sumatra while searching for inmates who escaped during the riot, which began after a protest over a lack of water and electricity turned violent.<\/p>\n

Indonesian authorities said security forces had recaptured 64 out of 240 prisoners who fled the facility in the nation’s third-largest city.<\/p>\n

Inmates had been in control of the jail until early on Friday morning, casually chatting outside their cells while heavily armed security forces formed a cordon round the building.<\/p>\n

Five people, three prisoners and two prison staff, were killed in the riots. Ten civilian guards had briefly been held hostage but were later released.<\/p>\n

Prisoners still on the loose included five of the 14 terror convicts that were being held at the institution.<\/p>\n

The terrorists are believed to have links to Toni Togar, who is currently serving a 20-year sentence in a separate prison for a series of church bombings in Sumatra in 2000, according to the Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for the justice and human rights ministry, Goncang Raharjo, said that, like many jails in Indonesia, Tanjung Gusta was overcrowded – holding more than double its official capacity.<\/p>\n

“The prison capacity is only 1,054 but it now holds about 2,600 convicts and suspects on trials.<\/p>\n

“Most prisons across the country have this problem,” he said.<\/p>\n

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