Indian, Bulgarian who dug their way out of jail captured

An Indian and a Bulgarian who tunnelled their way out of a Bali prison have been captured in East Timor, police said on Friday.

Bulgarian Dimitar Nikolov Iliev and Indian Sayed Mohammed Said were caught at a hotel in Dili yesterday after arriving on a boat illegally from Indonesia.

They had escaped from Kerobokan prison Monday along with with two other inmates, Australian Shaun Edward Davidson and Malaysian Tee Kok King.

The pair were originally caught for entering East Timor without legal documents, said East Timor senior police official Henrique da Costa, but police later concluded the pair were two of the four Bali fugitives.

“We will most likely hand them back to the Indonesia Friday afternoon now that we know they are fugitives,” da Costa told AFP.

The four foreign inmates escaped Bali’s prison through a 50 x 75cm (20 x 30 inch) hole at the prison’s wall that connects to a 15-metre (49-foot) long water tunnel heading towards a main street.

Davidson -- who was going to be freed within months -- and the Malaysian inmate are still on the run. AFP