BACOLOD CITY — Five “high risk” prisoners at the Negros Occidental District Jail in Bago City escaped at 1:20 a.m. Tuesday, June 29.
Lawyer Jairus Anthony Dogelio, spokesperson of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in Western Visayas (BJMP-6), said a manhunt is being conducted to rearrest the escapees.
Dogelio said they have yet to establish how the escapees cut the steel bar of their cell, as they recovered no weapons.
“The prisoners used their clothes as ropes to climb the jail wall to escape,” he said.
The escapees were identified as Francisco Epogon, Marvin Celeste, Danilo Celeste, Alejandro Montoya, and Daniel Tamon.
Epogon was allegedly part …
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