Sydney (AFP) - Seventeen prisoners have been shot dead after a mass breakout at a jail in Papua New Guinea, police said on Monday, with 57 still on the run.
Inmates from the Buimo jail in the Pacific nation's second largest city of Lae made a dash for freedom after breaking out of their compound on Friday, with prison warders opening fire.
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