Maharashtra: Two COVID-19 positive prisoners escape from Aurangabad's COVD care centre

Two prisoners who recently tested positive for coronavirus escaped from a COVID care centre in Maharashtra''s Aurangabad district, a prison official said on Monday.

The duo bent grilles of a window to make space to sneak out and used bed sheets as ropes to climb down from their room at the facility late Sunday night, he said.

A prison employee has been suspended and a case has been registered at Begumpura police station, he said.

"Teams have been sent out and search for the prisoners is on," a jail official told PTI.

A couple of days back, 29 undertrial prisoners of Harsul jail here tested positive for coronavirus. They were later sent to a COVID care centre for treatment.

Two of them, Sayyed Saif and Akramkhan, both residents of Aurangabad, escaped from the facility around 10.45 pm on Sunday, the official said.

Saif was facing trial for offences of cheating and forgery, while Akramkhan was arrested in a case of murder and criminal conspiracy, he said.