Murderers use turbans as rope in jailbreak

Seven murder convicts escaped from a high-scurity prison in south-western Pakistan today by using their turbans as a rope to scale the perimeter wall, a jail official said.

The prisoners sneaked out before dawn through a bathroom window in the prison hospital where they were being held because of overcrowding, said Abdur Razzaq Shah, deputy superintendent of the jail in Mach, a town in Baluchistan province.