Haitian authorities recapture a dozen of 172 escaped inmates

Police officers were searching cars and boats for escaped prisoners on Sunday after recapturing at least a dozen of the 172 inmates who overpowered guards and fled from a lockup in central Haiti, Heurtelou Paul Colson, director of the Arcahaie Prison said.

The prison break occurred Saturday in Arcahaie, a coastal town about 30 miles north of Haiti’s capital. The community is far from the southwest area that was slammed by Hurricane Matthew’s eye earlier this month.

One guard was reported killed and an inmate died following a bad fall while trying to scale a prison wall.

Haitian National Police officers set up numerous checkpoints along roads to search vehicles. Small boats in fishing towns around Arcahaie were also being checked.

Justice Minister Camille Edward Junior stated that the alleged mastermind of the escape, convicted kidnapper Yvener Carelus, was among the men captured after the prison break.