POLICE authori-ties in Ondo State, yesterday, said 54 of the 175 prisoners that escaped in a jail-break, Sunday, have been re arrested and returned to the prison custody.
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This is coming as it condemned reports of deaths in the jail break as unethical.
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A statement by the image maker of the command, Wole Ogodo, in Akure, yesterday, said the fleeing prisoners were picked up in neighbouring villages and towns.
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Ogodo declined to give further information on the arrest of the prisoners but Vanguard gathered from reliable sources that immediately they were set free by the bandits that bombed the prison cells they headed for brothels where many of them were picked up.
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It was gathered that following tip-off by some village heads in nearby villages and towns, the police swooped on the escapees.