A female prisoner who had been on the run for “several days” from Al-Zahir Prison in Makkah was recaptured in Riyadh on Thursday. The inmate from Mali was serving a prison term ahead of deportation and escaped after she reportedly feigned illness and was taken to hospital. Officials identified her whereabouts through transportation records which showed she had traveled to Riyadh under her sister's identity, and traced her by monitoring mobile telephone calls. A Makkah Prisons official said that an investigation was under way into the circumstances of the inmate's flight from the prison.
