Two killers use power tools to cut way out of maximum security jail

Two convicted murderers have used power tools to cut through steel pipes at a maximum-security prison near the Canadian border and escape through a manhole, New York governor Andrew Cuomo has said.

“It was an elaborate plot,” Mr Cuomo said after joining law enforcement authorities to retrace the prisoners’ escape route from the Clinton Correctional Facility in the town of Dannemora in the Adirondacks.

He said Richard Matt, 48, and David Sweat, 34, “are two dangerous individuals”.