Escape tunnel
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An escape tunnel is a form of secret passage used as part of an escape from captivity. The tunnels are usually dug by people locked in prisoner-of-war camps or prisons.
In road and rail tunnels, narrower escape tunnels are provided to enable people to escape on foot in the event of a fire or other accident in the main tunnel. For example, between the two main bores of the Channel Tunnel is an access tunnel large enough to take a fire engine.
Real escapes
Successful escapes
The following escapes were at least a partial success, with prisoners going through the tunnel and out the other side:- The escape from Stalag Luft III led by Roger Bushell during World War II. The story was made into a film: The Great Escape.
- Island Farm [link].
- Moises Teixeira da Silva, a convicted robber who escaped with around 100 others through a tunnel out of Carandiru prison in São Paulo, Brazil.
- Peter Butterworth, an English comic actor who briefly escaped from Dugaluft near Frankfurt.
- Twenty-three innmates of Political Security Organization in Yemen, including convicted mastermind of the USS Cole Bombing Jamal al-Badawi escaped their cell by digging an escape tunnel on February 3, 2006.
Unsuccessful escapes
- Prisoners at Camp Bucca, a U.S.-ran prison in Iraq, completed their tunnelling but did not make their bid for freedom, with the tunnel being discovered in March 2005 [link].
Fictional escapes
- Agamemnon Busmalis from the television series Oz
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Hogan's Heroes
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Stalag 17
- Prison Break
See also
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