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.
