Police are searching for a Tunisian migrant who escaped from the Ħal-Far Detention Centre early yesterday morning.

Another two migrants, both Somali, were apprehended soon after escaping and later arraigned.

A Home Affairs Ministry spokesman said it appeared the three detainees escaped through a breach they created in a toilet window at Hermes Block at around 4.15am.

Tunisian Nehmawi Hamdi was still missing.

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