Seven men have been arrested over the escape of an inmate from a prison van when it was ambushed on its way to court.

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Among those on the run is a 17-year-old double murderer who had been moved to the centre after being caught following an escape from another prison.

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Now, our guest said that Shakur's brother, a man by the name of Mutulu Shakur, helped her escape from prison.

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For good measure, he was forced to watch from his prison cell while his best friend, an accomplice in the escape attempt, was decapitated.

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The U.S. Treasury Department has declared him the most influential trafficker in the world, and Mexican authorities have been on his tail since his 2001 escape from a Mexican prison in a laundry cart.

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The straightness of his back came from something else: that on his third attempt at escape from prison camp he was beaten senseless, and his skull and neck broken, by two Breton peasants with pitchforks, and was invalided out in exchange for a U-boat commander.

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