More than thirty teenagers aged between 14 and 19 have escaped from a youth detention center in Nashville Tennessee, reports CBS News. The incident which happened late on Monday night during a shift change period has left officials red faced. According to Yahoo News, while many of the escaped teenagers were caught, at least 17 individuals are still on the loose as of early Tuesday morning. The incident happened at the Woodland Hills Youth Detention Center. Officials at the detention center say that the youngsters managed to escape the facility by crawling under a fence. Reports say that the teenagers had managed to find a weak spot in the fencing that surrounded a yard and simply crawled underneath it and made their escape. It is unclear how they were able to do so without getting busted. Initial reports said that there were 32 inmates that had escaped in all and that 15 of them were apprehended immediately. An intense search operation has been launched in the area as officials look for the 17 other teenagers, still on the loose.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:14:50 +0000
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