Nine prisoners escaped from a temporary detention center...

Nine prisoners escaped from a temporary detention center in Abkhazia, the Georgian breakaway republic, Deputy Interior Minister Valery Lagvilava said. The prisoners, considered Abkhazia's most dangerous, escaped with the help of guards at the center in Sukhumi, Abkhazia's capital, Lagvilava told journalists. Five of the escapees had been sentenced to death, four Chechen rebels and the head of a Georgian guerilla group fighting against Abkhaz separatists, after being found guilty of terrorism, kidnappings and possession of illegal arms, she said.