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Three KZN prisoners re-arrested after escaping - but two still on the run

KZN police have re-arrested three of the five prisoners who escaped from the Margate police station on Sunday.

A source close to the Kremlin said the US has previously provided Moscow with a list of nine Americans jailed in Russia who Washington wants returned. Stock photo.
A source close to the Kremlin said the US has previously provided Moscow with a list of nine Americans jailed in Russia who Washington wants returned. Stock photo. (123RF/Stockstudio44)

KwaZulu-Natal police have re-arrested three of the five prisoners who escaped from the Margate police station.

Police spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Thulani Zwane said the five awaiting-trial prisoners escaped from the cells on Sunday.

Zwane said they had been arrested for serious crimes such as murder and a string of robberies.

One man was re-arrested at Nyandezulu location in the Paddock area and two others handed themselves in at Gamalakhe police station.

Two other men are still on the run.

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