HANOI: Vietnamese police hunted Monday for hundreds of drug addicts who escaped from a compulsory rehabilitation center, with some using sticks and fire extinguishers to break out.

The communist government decrees up to two years of forced rehabilitation at government centers to try to reduce drug use. Rights groups have denounced poor conditions at the facilities and mass escapes occur periodically.

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