The voluntary return and arrests of prisoners who escaped from the district prison Malir continue, with the number of those now in custody when they now reach 126.
Officials confirmed that investigations of jailbreak remain in progress while the efforts to recreate the remaining 90 refugees are intensified through search operations over Karachi.
Authorities encourage voluntary surrender as part of their strategy to bring flight back into custody.
Yesterday, 27 more inmates were arrested again and returned to prison, which brought the total number of re -captured prisoners to 105. However, 111 inmates remained largely.
According to the prison authorities, a case related to Jailbreak has been registered at Shah Latif Town Police Station, where a four was filed by the prison’s deputy superintendent Zulfiqar Ali Pirzada according to various sections of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and anti-terrorism. The charges listed include, among other things, attempted murder, dacoity, police meeting and terrorism.
Authorities have appealed to the public for help to find the remaining refugees and have increased coordination between law enforcement authorities to ensure their rapid capture. Raids are carried out in different parts of the city with surveillance increased by the known homes to the escaped prisoners.
Furthermore, officials have announced that fencing who voluntarily returns to prison will be relieved.
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Cm Orders probe
Meanwhile at an emergency meeting held in Chief Minister’s House, Sindh cm Murad Ali Shah ordered a thorough investigation of Malir prison event. He assigned chief secretary Asif Hyder Shah to oversee the probe by involving Karachi Commissioner Hassan Naqvi and Karachi Police Chief Javed Alam Odho.
Murad criticized the prison administration for not seeking immediate assistance from local authorities and law enforcement agencies.
“There seems to have been a complete collapse in communication and readiness,” he said during the press conference.
He emphasized that those who found negligent would have consequences, “those responsible will be held responsible”. The Minister of the Main also instructed the Home Secretary to conduct a detailed security audit of all prisons over Sindh.
A robust search operation from the district and prison police and Rangers had followed the prison break, with 90 escape being re -captured on Tuesday.
According to police, the prison administration evacuated the prisoners of the barracks as a precautionary measure due to the potential danger after the earthquake.
About 3,000 prisoners gathered near Mari Gate and caused a stamp.
The home and the law minister called this jailbreak as “one of the biggest ever in Pakistan”.
The prisoners took advantage of the situation, broke locks of the Mari gate and began to flee by skipping the prison walls.
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Prison Police and Frontier Corps (FC) staff tried to stop the prisoners by shooting warning shots.
However, a prisoner caught a Kalashnikov from a police officer and began shooting unresolved and wounded two FC staff and a police officer.
Other prisoners also wounded officials with stones and sticks and managed to escape. The intense firing caused panic in the area and the traffic on the national highway was suspended.
The road from Quaidabad to Malir Prison was closed, resulting in long queues of vehicles between Malir Kala Board and Quaidabad.
A large quota of the District Malir Police, Rangers and FC reached the stage.
IG and you prisons, Superintendent of Prison, SSP Malir and other senior officials also reached the place.
Sindh Minister Zia Ul Hassan Lanjar noted the incident and instructed SSP Malir to take immediate action and arrest the escaped prisoners.
He instructed effective measures, monitoring, intelligence and roadblocks and ordered strict departmental action against negligent officials.
Jailbreak started late at night on June 2 and continued into the early morning of June 3, after hundreds of inmates, uneasy by mild tremors, was brought into the prison garden as a security measure, said Sindh Minister Zia Ul Hasan Lanjar, while talking to journalists on the spot.
A door search door was done in the surrounding areas.
