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Article: Fed: Police nab six Villawood escapees
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- AAP General News (Australia)
- Article date:
- February 14, 2003
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Fed: Police nab six Villawood escapees
SYDNEY, Feb 14 AAP - Police have recaptured six of the nine asylum
seekers who escaped
from Sydney's Villawood detention centre this morning.
The nine Asian males broke out of the centre shortly after 7am
(AEDT). They were believed
to have cut a hole in the perimeter fence.
Bankstown Superintendent Mick Plotecki said five were captured
within a very short
distance of the detention centre as they made for nearby Leightonfield
train station.
He said another detainee was recaptured very shortly after the
first group, leaving
the number ...