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Sunday Aug. 14, 2011 12:39 PM (EST+7)
Prisoners use bedsheets to escape Lebanese jail


Read more: Lebanon, prison, Naher al-Barid, detainees, prisoners, Fateh al-Islam

BEIRUT, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Five prisoners escaped from Lebanon's biggest jail on Saturday, using bedsheets to climb down a wall and then mingling with prison visitors before getting away, police said.

Security sources said four of them were believed to belong to the Fateh al-Islam group which fought fierce battles with the Lebanese army in a Palestinian refugee camp in 2007.

The Internal Security Forces said in a statement the five men, from Mauritania, Kuwait, Syria and Lebanon, escaped from Roumieh prison complex east of Beirut shortly before midday on Saturday. A sixth prisoner was caught as he tried to flee with them.

Four months ago two Roumieh inmates died in a riot by prisoners protesting against overcrowding. The jail was built to hold 1,500 inmates but is now crammed with over 3,000 prisoners.

(Reporting by Dominic Evans; editing by Andrew Roche)
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