8 SIMI activists escape from jail, killed in encounter

​Bhopal: Eight SIMI activists were on Monday killed in an alleged encounter with police on the outskirts of Bhopal hours after they escaped from the high-security Bhopal Central Jail killing a security guard but questions cropped up over the encounter.

The activists of the banned SIMI, two of whom were involved in a similar jail- break in Khandwa three years ago, managed to escape around 2-3 am after killing a jail security guard by scaling the prison wall with the help of bed sheets, DIG Bhopal Raman Singh said.