Yaounde - Two prisoners were killed and two others wounded during an attempted jailbreak at Bafoussam in western Cameroon, the prison governor said on Tuesday.
"Four prisoners escaped on October 9 after piercing the roof" of the prison and "scaling the barrier. Two of them were shot dead" about 50 metres from the jail, Daniel Njeng said by telephone.
The two others "were wounded and recaptured at 200 metres," he said, adding that "their lives are not in danger. They are currently receiving treatment in hospital."
The governor said that the two prisoners who died and one of those who was injured were in preventive detention in connection with a holdup on the premises of a company.
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The "infrastructure" at Bafoussam, built to house 600 detainees and currently accomodating 1,200, is "obsolete," Njeng said.
All overcrowded, very rundown and short of personnel, Cameroon's prisons are often prone to jailbreak bids, successful or otherwise.
In June 2008, 16 people were killed during an attempt to escape from the central prison in Douala, the west African country's economic capital.
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