5 prisoners bolt in Mulanje

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crime (2)Five prisoners have escaped in Mulanje district after they were left at the hospital to receive medication, Malawi police say.

Mulanje police spokesperson, James Kadadzera, refused to name the prisoners but he said there were six inmates at the hospital and one inmate refused the idea of escaping.

Kadadzera said the prisoner who stayed behind has two weeks remaining on his jail sentence and that could be the reason he did not escape.

The six prisoners were to stay at the hospital for two weeks to receive TB treatment.