Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) detainee Mas Selamat Kastari escaped from a Singapore detention centre on Wednesday.
A statement from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) says Mas Selamat escaped from the Whitley Road Detention Centre at 4:05pm.
Mas Selamat was the leader of the Singapore JI network.
MHA says he walks with a limp and is presently at large.
He is not known to be armed.
Extensive police resources have been deployed to track him down.
Anyone with information about him can contact the police at 999.
Mas Selamat was arrested by the Indonesian police on Bintan island in January 2006 and then sent back to Singapore.
He was wanted by Singapore authorities in connection with planned attacks on Changi airport. - CNA/ch
What the hell man, Prison Break...
What siao liao.
From now on, wherever I go... I'd be better off carrying a bat around ![]()
need to kick butt liao
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wl... i don't want to die in a bomb explosion...