Mozambique’s National Prison Service (Sernap) said on Monday that it has recaptured 584 of the 1,534 inmates who escaped last December from the Maputo Central Prison and the adjacent Maximum Security Prison in the capital Maputo.
According to Sernap Director-General Ilidio Miguel, during the launch of the week commemorating the institution’s 50th anniversary, the statistics regarding the number of recaptured escapees are continuously being updated, and that currently, 584 prisoners had been recaptured.
