Modelo tunnel aids break-out

Press, 5 June 1978, Page 6

Modelo tunnel aids break-out

NZPA-Reuter Barcelona The police have found a 1 new escape tunnel in Barce- i lona’s Mqdelo Prison as a . .huge hunt ‘continues for 45 i dangerous Convicts who i (made a mass break-out on Friday. The prison governor, Mer- : ino Manuel Camacho, told i reporters the new tunnel ran , parallel to another discovered a month ago. The prisoners who escaped included some jailed for! armed assault and robbery. They overpowered 'an ' infirmary attendant by holding a knife at his throat and forced him to accompany them down a disused lift shaft through a tunnel which led into the sewers. : They emerged from several manholes in the streets d refund the prison and forced :passing motorists to drive: /them out of the area.

Qne motorist said he had been startled by a manhole opening just in front of him. ' As he stopped several prisoners had scrambled into his car, shoving him out. The infirmary attendant was freed in the sewers and had to clamber out through a manhole to get back to tne prison. As policemen conducted a {cell search for weapons inside the prison yesterday, about 50 extreme Left-wing-ers demonstrated outside, demanding amnesty for about 1200 convicts still inside. In Madrid, two companies of armed policemen marched into the top-security Carabanchel Prison to search for weapons and escape tunnels {after the Barcelona breakout. I Seven prisoners escaped from Carabanchel last week