{"id":23432,"date":"2013-07-11T23:33:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T19:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=23432"},"modified":"2013-07-11T23:33:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T19:33:55","slug":"about-150-inmates-escape-from-indonesian-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=23432","title":{"rendered":"About 150 Inmates Escape From Indonesian Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/prison.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-23430\" alt=\"prison\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/prison.jpg\" width=\"670\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/prison.jpg 670w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/prison-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/prison-446x300.jpg 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a>About 150 prisoners escaped Thursday from an overcrowded prison in western Indonesia, and others held officers hostage, following a riot triggered by a blackout.<\/p>\n<p>Prison directorate spokesman Akbar Hadi said the inmates forced their way out from Tanjung Gusta Prison in Medan, the capital of North Sumatra province, while others set the prison&#8217;s offices on fire.<\/p>\n<p>National Police Spokesman Maj. Gen. Ronny Frengky Sompie, saying police were investigating media reports that 12 terrorist inmates were among those who escaped.<\/p>\n<p>Hadi said about 15 officers were being held captive inside the prison. It holds about 2,400 prisoners but media reports say its normal capacity is 400.<\/p>\n<p>BeritaSatu TV station reported that the prisoners seized guns from the officers. Its reporter said gunshots were heard from inside the prison.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of policemen are deployed around the prison and the Indonesia&#8217;s third largest town to blockade roads linking Medan and other provinces while fire brigades are battling the fires.<\/p>\n<p>MetroTV station reported that at least 10 prisoners including a terrorist convict had been recaptured.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 150 prisoners escaped Thursday from an overcrowded prison in western Indonesia, and others held&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,224,155,137],"tags":[923],"class_list":["post-23432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-indonesia","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}