Convict makes a clean break from Penang jail

By KIATISAK CHUA

GEORGE TOWN:  A 42-year-old convict is at large after he managed to give the prison warden the slip as he was cleaning the area surrounding the prison.

Pang Ruey Shang, from Bukit Mertajam, was believed to have escaped on foot at 12pm on Wednesday from the Penang Prison in Jalan Gaol.

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