Prison staff and police were last night scouring the environs of the Mazaruni Prisons for two inmates who escaped from the Region Seven facility yesterday.
Reports out of Bartica yesterday were that the inmates were in a section of the prison compound when the duo made good their escape. A source at the prison told this newspaper last evening that the prison authorities acted immediately after it became known that two prisoners were unaccounted for.
The prisoners were at a social event at a playfield within the prison compound at the time. He said that initially it was