10 minors bolt jail

At least 10 minors, accused of petty crimes, escaped yesterday from the Pasig City jail in Barangay Nagpayong.

Senior Inspector Fermin Enriquez, of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) said the six jail guards who were on duty at the time of the jailbreak were ordered investigated and could be charged with negligence.

The jailbreak was learned after jail guards conducted a head count of the prisoners at 8:30 a.m., Enriquez said.

Initial investigation showed that the inmates, mostly facing robbery-snatching cases, sawed off the iron grills of the window of the cell located at the second floor of the facility.

Superintendent Gerry Galvan, chief of the criminal investigation division of the Pasig City police, said the prisoners went up the wall of the jail and climbed down into a squatters’ area. An improvised saw was recovered inside the cell.

Galvan and his men scoured the area yesterday, but failed to recapture any of the inmates.

Galvan said the prisoners escaped between 4 a.m. to 4:30 a.m. – Non Alquitran