(3 Jun 2025)
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Karachi, Pakistan – 3 June 2025
1. Wide exterior of prison from where more than 100 inmates escaped overnight after they were temporarily moved out of their cells following mild earthquake tremors
2. Close sign board reading (English) “District prison and correctional facility Malir Karachi“
3. People in front of prison building
4.Various of interior of prison, showing broken windows, bullet hole on window screen and bullet shells on ground
5. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Arshad Shah, superintendent of prison:
“At about 11 o’ clock at night, a strong earthquake struck and people inside prison barracks were shaken, and a sense of fear arose within them, they start shouting, get out, get out, everyone should go out, roof of barracks may collapse. They start pushing and due to this, the locks of the barracks were broken.”
6. Mid of media briefing
7. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Arshad Shah, superintendent of prison:
7. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Arshad Shah, superintendent of prison:
“There was a total of six thousand prisoners at the time of evacuation. Three and half to four thousand prisoners were there (evacuated). Police and rangers also came at that time, we have recaptured them all, but 216 of our prisoners were able to escape. We re-admitted 78 after last night and morning operation.”
8. Various of prison main entrance, police officer at the front
STORYLINE:
More than 100 inmates escaped from a prison and at least one was killed in a shootout in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi overnight after they were temporarily moved out of their cells following mild earthquake tremors, officials said Tuesday.
Kashif Abbasi, a senior police official, said 216 inmates fled the prison in the capital of Sindh province before dawn. Of those, 78 had been recaptured. No one convicted or facing trial as a militant is among those who fled, he said.
One prisoner was killed and three security officials were wounded in the ensuing shootout, but the situation has been brought under control, Abbasi said, adding that police are conducting raids to capture the remaining escapees.
Ziaul Hassan, the home minister of Sindh province, said the jailbreak occurred after prisoners were evacuated from their cells for safety during the earthquake.
The inmates were still outside of the cells when a group suddenly attacked guards, seized their weapons, opened fire and fled.
The superintendent of Malir prison, Arshad Shah, said the inmates fled toward a nearby residential area. According to residents, police later used mosque loudspeakers to alert them to the jailbreak and seek help in arresting the escapees.
Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, who is not related to the prison official, asked the escapees in televised comments to voluntarily return, saying they had only been involved in minor crimes until that point. But he said they could face terror charges if they are arrested by police on the jailbreak charge.
Though prisoners have escaped while being transported to court for trial, prison breaks are not common in Pakistan, where authorities have enhanced security since 2013 when the Pakistani Taliban freed more than 200 inmates in an attack on a prison in the northwestern district of Dera Ismail Khan.
Karachi has experienced several mild and shallow earthquakes in the past 24 hours, ranging from 2.6 to 3.4 in magnitude, according to the National Seismic Monitoring Center.
AP video by Muhammad Faroq
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