NEW DELHI: At least seven inmates including six activists of the proscribed Student Islamic Movement of India (Simi) who were held in Khandwa jail in India's Madhya Pradesh state escaped in the early hours of Tuesday after stabbing two security guards, The Hindustan Times reported on Tuesday.
SP Khandwa Manoj Sharma confirmed the escape of the convicts and said they would be arrested, according to the report published on the Indian news website.
The region around the site of incident was cordoned off as a large scale search operation went underway.
The incident is said to have taken place between 2 and 3am.
The seven prisoners reached the jail bathroom and stabbed the two security guards on duty, snatching their rifles.
They then broke the wall of the bathroom to escape.
Police later claimed to have arrested one of the escaped convicts.
Authorities in India's Gujrat state had foiled a jailbreak attempt in February this year after excessive mud was seen in the lawn outside the barrack, which led to the discovery of a tunnel which which the inmates had been digging for the past few days.
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