A prisoner escaped from the Raiwaqa Police Station on Sunday by removing the building’s roofing panels.
He had gone to the male toilet and managed to gain access into the female cubicles from where he removed the roof panels to get onto the station roof.
The alarm was raised when it was noticed he had escaped.
Officers from the Rakiraki Police Station acted on reports and the prisoner was arrested at Nanukuloa Village later the same day. Fiji Police Force chief operations officer Acting Assistant Commissioner of Police Livai Driu confirmed the arrest.
