NAZARETH: Two of six Palestinian inmates who escaped from a high security prison in Israel this week in one of the most spectacular breakouts in the country's history were captured Friday, Israeli police said.

"Police in the northern zone captured two escaped prisoners a short while ago... in the city of Nazareth," they said in a statement. They later named the two as Yaqoub Qadri, 48, and Mahmoud Abdullah Ardah, 45, both of the Islamic Jihad.

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