Terror suspect escaped through bathroom window

Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister says an unsecured bathroom window allowed a top Muslim terror suspect to flee a high-security prison in February.

Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister says an unsecured bathroom window allowed a top Muslim terror suspect to flee a high-security prison in February.

In announcing the results of a probe into the escape, Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng said on Monday the terror suspect had planned his escape over time.

Wong said Mas Selamat Kastari climbed out of a ventilation window of a toilet cubicle before a scheduled weekly visit with his family on February 27. The window did not have a grill on it, Wong said.

The escape triggered a month long nationwide manhunt in which police, special operations officers, elite Gurkha guards and soldiers combed the island nation’s forests and border security was tightened.

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