28 inmates flee as 50 gunmen attack Lanao Sur jail

CAMP SK PENDATUN, Maguindanao -- Police manhunt has been launched against 28 prisoners who fled the Lanao del Surprovincial jail after about 50 heavily armed men swooped down on the jail facility at 5:45 p.m. Saturday.Chief Supt. Agripino Javier, regional director for PNP in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PNP-ARMM) based here, said among those who were rescued by armed men were eight members of Maute lawless armed group.Citing report from 3rd Maneuver Company of the PNP Regional Public Safety Battalion, Javier said the armed men abducted Jail Officer 3 Modasir Manwang and 20 other inmates who the attackers later released in Barangay Caloocan, Marawi City.The suspects also took from the provincial jail one M-16 Armalite rifle, and one Mitsubishi mobile car.Reports said the eight suspects boarded a waiting motorized banca and sailed across Lake Lanao undercover of darkness.