Several hundred police officers and gendarmes have been deployed to carry out a manhunt.Two French prison officers have been killed in an ambush on a prison van near Rouen in Normandy, according to BBC.
Prisoner Mohamed Amra – known as “The Fly” – was being taken from court to a prison when a car rammed the prison van at a toll booth.
Prosecutors identified the inmate who was freed as Mohamed Amra, born in 1994.
Amra was convicted of burglary on 10 May and had been indicted by prosecutors in Marseille for a kidnapping that led to a death.
