MONROVIA - More than 200 prisoners escaped from LiberiaÂ’s highest security prison in the heart of the capital Monrovia Monday, after overcoming guards by pelting stones and other objects, police said.
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The UN mission in the west African country, UNMIL, deployed troops at the South Beach jail after the breakout but only some 30 prisoners were apprehended, a police official said.
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The discontented prisoners were spurred among other things by a tuberculosis outbreak in the overcrowded penitentiary. |