1.   Two prisoners bungled an escape bid after running either side of a lamp-post while handcuffed.

2.   Ell had once seen a vidfilm where that had been used for an escape bid.

3.   He alleged that foreign inmates were behind the failed escape bid.

4.   Investigators are drawing up a detailed map to pinpoint the exact sequence of events in the failed escape bid.

5.   The suspect allegedly attacked officers in an escape bid, prompting gunfire that killed him.

6.   Three prison officers suffered stab wounds when armed prisoners used them as a human shield in an escape bid.

7.   A similar fire broke out in the government-funded but church-run institute last year in another failed escape bid.

8.   A similar fire broke out in the government-funded institute last year in a failed escape bid, leading to the arrest of seven inmates.

9.   A policeman was pistol whipped by prisoners holding him and colleagues hostage in an escape bid from a police station in Johannesburg, South African police said.

10.   Dozens of captured fighters were involved in the original escape bid.