Twenty-eight inmates escape from Belgian prison

Twenty-eight prisoners escaped from a prison in
Dendermonde in the Belgian province of East Flanders, the Belga news
agency reported Saturday.
Police launched a large search operation, which included the use
of a helicopter, and seven of the prisoners who escaped overnight had
been recaptured, according to dpa.
Two prisoners from an Eastern European gang of thieves broke out
of their cells early Saturday and took several warders hostage. Using
the warders' keys they set 26 more prisoners free.
Nobody was injured in the escape, the authorities said.