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Yemeni prison escapee surrenders
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published April 3, 2006
SANA, Yemen - One of 23 al-Qaida convicts who escaped from a Yemeni prison in February has surrendered, a news agency reported Sunday.
Hazam Saleh Majali turned himself in to authorities within the past two days, Yemen's official Saba news agency said.
The Yemeni was convicted of having a role in the 2002 attack on the French tanker Limburg and sentenced to death.
Majali was the sixth from the group of 23 to have surrendered, the agency said.
The prisoners broke out on Feb. 3 through a roughly 200-yard tunnel that ended inside a mosque.
Among those at large is a militant convicted in the 2000 attack on the destroyer USS Cole in Aden's harbor.
Security officials said investigations into the prison break had found evidence that three people were bribed to facilitate the escape.
Authorities had offered a reward of $27,800 for information leading to the arrest of any of the fugitives.
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