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| Subject: Funny: Nearly 300 inmates used Chile quake to escape Wed Apr 02, 2014 11:05 pm | |
| Nearly 300 female prisoners took advantage of a massive earthquake to escape from a jail in northern Chile, although many had since returned, authorities said on Wednesday.
Local police said the prisoners fled after an offshore 8.2-magnitude earthquake shook northern Chile on Tuesday, killing six people and triggering a tsunami with 2-metre waves.
The jail, situated in the port town of Iquique, west of the Atacama Desert, was evacuated as it was at risk of being inundated by sea water. Police said 293 of the 320 inmates had escaped.
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