Two expats caught after escape from detention centre

Two expatriates who escaped from a detention centre on the capital’s suburb Hulhumalé last week were caught on Monday.

The pair was among five Bangladeshi men who broke out of the expat detention centre after tearing through a tin fence.

Ahmed Lugman, the spokesman of the Maldives Correctional Services, said the two men were apprehended in Malé. “They were arrested near the southwest harbor area. They have been brought back to detention now,” he said.

The five escapees included one man detained on suspicion of peddling drugs, Lugman said. The other four were accused of breaching work visa rules.