Two prisoners escape

SANGRUR:Two prisoners escaped from the district jail in Sangrur when they were working in fields within the prison complex on Thursday.

The prisoners have been identified as Gurdarshan Singh of Mubarakpur Chungan village near Malerkotla and Sandeep Singh of Bangan village in Moonak tehsil.

The police officials said Gurdarshan was convicted of killing

Harkirat Singh, 50, husband of Manpreet Kaur, a Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) sarpanch from Mubarakpur Chungan village in 2017. Sandeep was serving a sentence for attempt to murder.

Deputy superintendent of police (rural) Satpal Sharma said both prisoners were sent to the fields on the district jail premises around 3pm and they managed to flee by dodging the security guard. HTC