CAIRO - Police have arrested 35 prisoners, who had escaped from a detention room in a police station Tuesday night, security sources said. Fifty three others are being tracked down, they added. The escape from el-Sahel Police station in Cairo came just before midnight, after the prisoners pried open the windows and doors of six detention rooms and burnt them . Prosecutors said that the number of police checkpoints were increased across the capital to catch the fugitives. Security sources said that the 88 men, detained on various criminal charges, had broken out of the station after launching a large-scale riot during which they broke open the doors and windows of six rooms. Prosecutors said inadequate security measures contributed to the jailbreak. “The locks of the gates are substandard and cheap. I think some of these led to the risoners breaking jail,” they added.
