The two inmates apparently slipped out of the jail on Saturday night by climbing up their detention cell’s ceiling shaft and scaling down the east-side prison fence by making a rope out of torn blankets.
Pol Lt-Colonel Narong Utbuawong of Muang Sukhothai Police Station said Surasak Mora, 41, and Chainarong Art-pan, 33, escaped from the prison at around 8pm on Saturday.
One of them then stole a motorcycle that was parked in front of a nearby house with a key still in the ignition hole, according to homeowner Krongthong Sangthong who ran out when she heard the motorcycle engine start but it was too late.