The three prisoners who escaped from the Goian Penitentiary on May 4 were captured. According to the General Police Inspectorate, two of them were apprehended near Buciușca village of Rezina district, while the third was hiding from the police in a wood in Țîpova, IPN reports.

The police said the three intended to cross the Nistru River to reach the Transnistrian region.

According to the National Administration of Penitentiaries, in the evening of May 4 the detainees damaged the bathroom window bars and climbed the prion’s guard facilities, running away. The prisoners now face an additional jail term for escape.