Drug detainees dig tunnel to escape, caught within 24 hours  

廣西玉林18名戒毒人員挖地道“越獄” 一天內被擒

廣西玉林市興業縣數日前發生在押人員“越獄”事件，18名在押人員通過挖地道的方式集體逃出強制戒毒所。興業縣公安局7月7日向中新網記者證實此事：這18名戒毒人員在事發后24小時內已被警方如數擒獲。 [查看全文]

Yulin (ECNS) – Eighteen drug detainees at a mandatory detox center in Xingye county of Yulin in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region were caught within 24 hours after managing to escape from the center, according to the local public security bureau.

The 18 detainees broke out of their cells through a tunnel they had dug, then climbed over the 5-meter-high walls and escaped from the Xingye Mandatory Detox Center on the evening of June 24, said Li Zhi, deputy director at the Xingye Public Security Bureau.

They had dug tunnels with bed boards and hid the earth under the beds, Li added.

Police captured them in Bobai, another county in Yulin.

The detainees were in a 2-year mandatory drug rehab treatment.