Authorities launched a manhunt near the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Ind., Sunday after two convicted murders and a rapist escaped from the maximum-security facility through underground tunnels, officials said.
Prison officials discovered that the three men were missing after a routine inmate count taken about 10 a.m. Sunday, said John Schrader, a spokesman for the Indiana Department of Corrections. After guards failed to find the offenders in the facility, officers from several law-enforcement agencies began searching the community surrounding the prison, Schrader said.
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