Drug center will not pursue 18 still free after mass escape
After more than 40 men broke out of a Phnom Penh drug rehabilitation center on 5 February, officials said this week that they have called off efforts to arrest 18 escapees who remain at large, instead asking for their families to return them voluntarily.
A total of 44 detainees ran away from the Orkas Knhom drug rehabilitation center in Sen Sok district in two separate escapes, one in which 23 overpowered security guards and scaled the walls of the center, and a second in the evening during which 21 crawled through a hole in the ceiling and jumped over a wall, an official said.
