A Singapore terrorist leader escaped from a local detention center on Wednesday, local TV reported.
Local television Channel NewsAsia quoted a statement from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) as saying that Jemaah Islamiyah (JI)detainee Mas Selamat Kastari escaped from the Whitley Road Detention Center at 4.05 pm local time (GMT0805).
Mas Selamat was the leader of the Singapore JI network and onceplanned to attack Singapore's Changi airport, said the report.
He was arrested by the Indonesian police on Bintan island in January 2006 and then sent back to Singapore, Channel NewsAsia said.
The Home Affairs Ministry said the terrorist walks with a limp and is presently at large.
He is not known to be armed, and extensive police resources have been deployed to track him down, according to the report.
Jemaah Islamiyah is an Indonesia-based terrorist organization linked to al-Qaida or the Taliban.
Source: Xinhua
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