Buxar jailbreak: five prisoners escape Central Jail scaling the prison wall

Five convicts, including four serving life imprisonment, escaped from the Buxar Central Jail late on Friday night by scaling the prison wall.

District Magistrate Raman Kumar said on Saturday that the jailbreak took place between 12 midnight and 3 AM.

Iron rod, pipe and ‘dhoti’ have been found at the spot from where the prisoners scaled the wall, he said.