A prisoner who was sentenced to death for smuggling Indian quantities of drugs escaped from the jail by making a tunnel.
The jailbreak took place in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, where a smuggler from China was awaiting execution but escaped death and prison authorities in the dark of night, according to a foreign news agency. went.
Media reports said that the video of the prisoner escaping from the jail also went viral on social media.
Jakarta police say the prisoner stole a scarecrow driver and other tools from a kitchen workshop and had been planning to escape for the past five or six months.
According to prison officials, the 53-year-old Chinese smuggler was sentenced to death in 2017 for smuggling 110kg of cocaine, but escaped through a 100-foot-long tunnel.
In a viral video on social media, it can be seen that the tunnel came out in the sewerage line outside the jail, from which the prisoner escaped while resting.
