Photo illustration. (Credit: NNA)
BEIRUT — Lebanon's Internal Security Forces arrested on Saturday all three fugitives who had escaped the same day from a prison in Doueir, in the region of Nabatieh in south Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency reported.
The ISF said in a statement that "three detainees took advantage of the moment when one of the jailers had opened the door of their cell, violently pushed the door and escaped from the prison," according to the NNA. The fugitives were tracked down and all three were arrested.
Escapes of this kind have risen in recent months amid Lebanon's deepening economic crisis. Nineteen inmates had escaped more than a week ago from prison in Jounieh, in the Kesrouan region, while in August, some 30 inmates escaped from the Adlieh detention center in Beirut via a window after clandestinely bringing a tool into the premises. Some of them were later arrested.