Prisoners escape through a hole in the wall

berlin - Four detainees managed to escape on Thursday in Berlin by making a hole in the wall of the prison. They then climbed over a fence with barbed wire and disappeared without a trace.

The four broke a piece of concrete from the wall between two ventilation shafts, according to the German justice. What the four were in prison was not disclosed. They had started their service in a workshop on Thursday morning, but secretly ran away to make the hole. Whether they received help from outside the prison is not clear.