Eastern cape prison escape
Recaptured convicts to face more charges following EC prison escape
The police's Sibongile Soci said that an investigation into how they managed to escape was ongoing.
Eastern Cape police commissioner Liziwe Ntshinga has ordered the establishment of a task team to investigate how three inmates escaped from the Middeldrift Correctional Centre.
A probe has been underway after three inmates were killed when violence broke out between prisoners and guards in December.
The hardened criminals are believed to have escaped through a window at Groenpunt Maximum Security Prison.
The search continues for three awaiting trial prisoners who escaped from Queenstown prison.