Bali police in frantic search for prison escapees

Escape route: Curious onlookers taking a look at the hole where the four foreign inmates escaped from Kerobokan prison in Denpasar, Bali. — Reuters

JAKARTA: Bali police continued a search for four foreign inmates who escaped from a high-security prison on the Indonesian resort island of Bali after digging a 15m-long tunnel under the prison’s walls.

Prison guards and local police officers found the tunnel on Monday. It led to a road outside Kerobokan Prison, which houses more than 1,000 inmates, including many foreigners convicted of crimes including murder and drug offenses.