105 Sindhupalchok prison escapees recaptured

MELAMCHI: Only 105 of 216 jailbirds, who escaped from Sindhupalchok district alone following the 2015 earthquake, have been recaptured.

Among the arrested are nine women and 96 men.

Police have so far rearrested 105 prison escapees, confirmed acting Prison In-charge of Sindhupalchok District Prison Akash Adhikari.

There were 196 male and 20 female inmates in the Sindhupalchok Jail before the earthquake, shared the Prison Office.

Some of the escapees had come to contact the prison themselves after some days of the tremor while many of them were held by police squads.