Bahrain’s security forces have foiled an attempt to smuggle by sea to Iran the fugitives who escaped from the Jaw prison in Manama on January 1, Gulf News reported on Thursday.
The Media Centre of Bahrain’s Interior Ministry said in a tweet that security forces foiled the attempt during a joint operation carried out at dawn on Thursday.
A preliminary investigation indicates that the boat carrying the fugitives was heading to Iran, the centre said in another tweet.
Agence France-Presse reported that Bahrain forces killed three ‘fugitives’ on Thursday as they tried to flee by boat to Iran.
AFP quoted the Interior Ministry as saying that seven other people on the boat were arrested in connection with the jailbreak, which freed 10 people serving long sentences for terrorism.