Manila: Thirteen detainees facing drug charges have escaped from jail, the latest in a series of prison breaks in the Philippines.
The 13 slipped out of the jail in a police camp in San Fernando city north of Manila before dawn yesterday, said Derrick Arnold Carreon, spokesman for the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency.
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