Prison escape attempt in chopper foiled in Ukraine

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Moscow, March 17 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A daring Hollywood-style attempt to spring two inmates from a penal colony in Ukraine was foiled by prison guards, the country’s penitentiary service said.

A helicopter carrying two accomplices of the inmates, armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, which later turned out to be a dummy, landed on the territory of the Petrovskaya penal colony.

The prison guards stopped the helicopter’s takeoff, detaining the escapees and their accomplices, the service said.

A year ago, a convicted murderer escaped from a high-security prison in Russia’s Vologda region, using a rope ladder to climb aboard a helicopter hijacked by his accomplices.

Later the same day, he was recaptured by police.

–IANS/RIA Novosti

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