Prisoners Break Out in Song -- Literally

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Reuters

NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters) - Ten Kenyan prisoners broke out of a police cell by singing hymns and chanting prayers to drown the sound of their escape, a newspaper reported Friday.

The Daily Nation said the singing prisoners sawed through the iron bars of the cell window before scrambling to freedom in Machakos, a town south of Kenyan capital Nairobi.

"The robbers cut the grill and our officers have been in hot pursuit of them since morning. We know where they live and we will find them," said Charles Mathenge, chief of Machakos police station where the men had been detained awaiting trial.

But he denied the prisoners, due before court on charges of violent robbery, had made their escape by singing. "They were not singing at all, at least our officers would have heard them. We had other remandees in the cells and we have recorded their statements, no one has told us about singing," Mathenge told Reuters.

However, the Daily Nation said inmates in neighboring cells were woken up by the hymns.

"These people really disturbed us as they tried to preach the gospel," the newspaper quoted one inmate as saying. [/quote]

 

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A veteran Croatian hunter was shot by his own hound while preparing to go off into the woods, a newspaper reported on Friday.

Spaso Ivosevic, a hunter in central Croatia since 1957, cleaned and loaded his double-barreled shotgun as usual on Wednesday, the Jutarnji List daily said.

Ivosevic briefly leaned the gun against a wall near his house when his 2-year-old dog Lero, chasing chickens through the yard, stormed past and tripped over the shotgun.

It hit the ground and fired, showering Ivosevic with pellets.

The hunter was treated for a fractured leg bone, while the fate of Lero was not known.

 

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Sounds like that prison escape from Alcatraz, except not quite as cool.