One prison officer was injured in the jailbreak, which occurred early in the morning when a group of prisoners commandeered a garbage truck to ram the prison gate and escape, said Kayin Police Chief Aung Myint Moe. "They attacked a prison officer, wounding him, and drove the truck out off the prison," local official Khin Thet Mar told Agence France-Presse. Citing conflicting reports from police and prison officers, she said the truck had either gone in to drop off sand and stone for construction, or to take out garbage from the facility. Myanmar police says escaped inmates hijacked a delivery truck and smashed through the gates of their jail

YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar police are hunting dozens of escaped inmates who hijacked a delivery truck and smashed through the gates of their jail in a daring prison break on Sunday, September 16, officials said. Khin Thet Mar warned locals to contact authorities if strangers appeared in their villages. The prisoners escaped after pulling the driver down from a garbage truck and then crashing through the gates, leaving them wrenched off their hinges.
Forty-one inmates escape from Hpa-an Township's main prison in Kayin State, Myanmar, after hijacking a garbage truck and driving it through the prison gates. Eleven of the escapees are apprehended by police, but 30 remain at large.