Officials in Paraguay say at least 75 inmates escaped from a prison near the border with Brazil, and many are members of a notorious Brazilian gang
ASUNCION, Paraguay -- At least 75 inmates, many of them members of a notorious Brazilian gang, escaped from a Paraguayan prison in a border town on Sunday, according to authorities who said they immediately fired the prison's director.
Officials said they discovered a tunnel and found cells filled with as many as 200 bags of earth.
“It's not possible that nobody saw anything in all this time,” Justice Minister Cecilia Pérez told the Telefuturo station. “This isn't the work of one day or one night.”
Interior Minister Euclides Acevedo said in a statement that the tunnel itself may have been a ruse to cover complicity by prison officials and that many of the inmates may have been allowed to walk out of the prison's main gate.
Acevedo said the majority of the escapees belong to the First Capital Command based in Brazil, which borders the city of Pedro Juan Caballero, where the prison is located.
He said national police had been mobilized to hunt for the escapees.
The prison's director and head of security were fired and Pérez said the fight against organized crime isn't only against the Brazilian gang, “but also clearly against all the corruption within our system, which sadly is totally contaminated.”
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