More than 30 inmates on the run after a Myanmar jailbreak may try to cross into Thailand, an official said Monday, a day after they hijacked a garbage truck and ploughed through the prison gates.
The fugitives broke out of Hpa-An jail in the country's eastern Karen state -- which borders Thailand -- on Sunday morning.
State media said 10 of the 41 escapees had been recaptured while police are scouring nearby villages for those still at large.
The jailbreak has left villagers near the prison scared, local official Khin Thet Mar told AFP.
"(The escaped prisoners) don't have anything to eat or money to use so people think they might threaten them to get what they need," she said.
"They might have fled to Thailand but the authorities here are trying to recapture them by blocking possible escape routes."
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