Two fugitives from Kosovo prison breakout arrested

Nearly two months after seven inmates escaped from a prison, police in Kosovo today say they arrested two. The August 18 jailbreak from Dubrava, in western Kosovo, saw Faton Hajrizi, Burim Basha, Amir Sopa, Astrit Shabani, Ramadan Shiti, Davit Morina and Lirim Jakup escape. Two fugitives from Kosovo prison breakout arrested According to the Kosovo Police Service (KPS), Hajrizi, a suspect in the murder of a Russian KFOR soldier, and Basha, have now been apprehended. Four others, among them Hajrizi's sister, herself a KPS officer, were also detained. All seven escapees are described as "extremely dangerous" and were incarcerated after having committed serious crimes, including murder, attempted murder, terrorism, armed robbery and kidnappings. However, the two that drew the most attention after the prison breakout, thought at the time to have been aided by the guards, Jakupi and Shiti, are still at large. Jakupi, nicknamed Nazi, is wanted by the authorities in Belgrade for involvement in terror attacks in the south of the country, where he is suspected of having murdered a Serbian policeman. Shiti was described as a Saudi-born suspected Islamist terrorist expelled from his native country of Syria for allegedly plotting an attack on senior public figures. He had been arrested in 2005 by U.S., Polish and Ukrainian forces acting for the UN on an international arrest warrant after an armed break-out earlier that year from a jail in Skopje, the Macedonian capital, where he was held over the murder of a taxi driver.

Two fugitives from Kosovo prison breakout arrested

According to the Kosovo Police Service (KPS), Hajrizi, a suspect in the murder of a Russian KFOR soldier, and Basha, have now been apprehended.

Four others, among them Hajrizi's sister, herself a KPS officer, were also detained.

All seven escapees are described as "extremely dangerous" and were incarcerated after having committed serious crimes, including murder, attempted murder, terrorism, armed robbery and kidnappings.

However, the two that drew the most attention after the prison breakout, thought at the time to have been aided by the guards, Jakupi and Shiti, are still at large.

Jakupi, nicknamed Nazi, is wanted by the authorities in Belgrade for involvement in terror attacks in the south of the country, where he is suspected of having murdered a Serbian policeman.

Shiti was described as a Saudi-born suspected Islamist terrorist expelled from his native country of Syria for allegedly plotting an attack on senior public figures.

He had been arrested in 2005 by U.S., Polish and Ukrainian forces acting for the UN on an international arrest warrant after an armed break-out earlier that year from a jail in Skopje, the Macedonian capital, where he was held over the murder of a taxi driver.