Two Colombian prisoners have escaped a maximum security jail in Bogota' by getting a guard drunk and convincing him to let them go buy more liquor. 

The two men escaped La Picota jail on Saturday evening, with eyewitnesses saying the prisoners were drinking with one of the guards and had promised to come back to jail with more alcohol.

Jhon Gutiérrez Rincón, a Farc rebel jailed for kidnapping and Olmedo Vargas, who had recently quit Farc but was awaiting trial for alleged theft, never returned. 

The guard in question refused to be breathalysed after the incident came to light. 

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