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A drunken constabulary serviceman successful Zambia freed 13 suspects from custody truthful that they could spell and observe the caller year, officials say.
Detective inspector Titus Phiri was arrested aft releasing the suspects from Leonard Cheelo constabulary presumption successful the capital, Lusaka, earlier moving distant himself.
The 13 detainees were accused of crimes specified arsenic assault, robbery and burglary.
They are each presently connected the tally and a manhunt has been launched to find them.
Police spokesperson Rae Hamoonga said that Mr Phiri, "in a authorities of intoxication, forcibly seized compartment keys" from constable Serah Banda connected New Year's Eve.
"Subsequently, detective inspector Phiri unlocked some the antheral and pistillate cells and instructed the suspects to leave, stating they were escaped to transverse implicit into the caller year," helium said.
"Out of the 15 suspects successful custody, 13 escaped. Following the incident, the serviceman fled the scene."
Mr Phiri has not yet commented connected the allegations.
Reacting to the incident, erstwhile statesmanlike spokesperson and lawyer Dickson Jere wrote connected Facebook: "I support laughing each clip I representation the script - comical! But then, I remembered a akin incidental successful 1997."
On New Year's Eve successful 1997, the late, arguable High Court Judge Kabazo Chanda ordered the merchandise of 53 suspects, immoderate of whom were deemed unsafe by the police.
Mr Chanda was annoyed that the suspects had been arrested arsenic agelong agone arsenic 1992, but had not yet appeared successful court.
"Justice delayed, is justness denied," helium said.
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