The police and the Detention Service are searching for a Tunisian migrant who escaped from Hal Far Detention Centre in the early hours of this morning.

Another two migrants, both Somali, were apprehended shortly after they escaped.

They were taken to court later in the morning and charged with the escape. They were remanded in custody.

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