Philippine prisons chief denies digging escape tunnel for inmates


MANILA (AFP): A Philippine corrections chief accused of ordering the killing of a journalist has claimed that a huge pit dug beside his home in a Manila prison complex was not an escape tunnel for inmates but for scuba diving.

Estimated to be 60m (197 feet) deep and 40m wide, the gaping hole was found at the official residence of Gerald Bantag (pic) after he was suspended as director general of the Bureau of Corrections.

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