NEW DELHI: Eight suspected members of a banned Islamist group escaped from a high security prison in India Monday after slitting the throat of a guard with steel plates, police said.

The inmates staged the breakout in the early hours after attacking the unarmed guard with sharpened steel plates before tying together bedsheets to scale up and down several walls in the jail in the city of Bhopal.

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