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Crime Reporter
POLICE and the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services said yesterday that they are closing in on the two prisoners who escaped from Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison Farm last Wednesday after they allegedly attacked a prison officer with a pick head, leaving him for dead.
Carrington Mutambarika (21) and Brighton Tshuma (23) were reported to have been working on the farm when the incident occurred.
The prison officer, who was also stripped of his uniform, sustained serious head injuries and was admitted at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals from where he has since been discharged.

One of the suspects is believed to have worn the uniform after the attack.
Mutambarika was serving seven years for robbery after being sentenced in 2010, while Tshuma had four years for 12 counts of housebreaking and theft after being sentenced in 2011.

ZPCS national spokesperson Superintendent Elizabeth Banda said they were following some leads.
“There are no developments on the case except that we have got some leads that we are following in conjuction with the police and I cannot divulge them,” she said.

“If there are any other developments, we will let you know, but we want to assure members of the public that the net would soon close in on the two convicts.”

National police spokesperson Chief Superintendent Paul Nyathi said they were still looking for the two convicts.
“They have not yet been arrested and we are still looking for them,” he said. “The two can run away, but they cannot hide and surely the long arm of the law will soon catch up with them.”

Chief Supt Nyathi said they were appealing to anyone with information leading to the arrest of the two suspects to contact any nearest police station. Sources said last week that they strongly believed that Mutambarika and Tshuma were assisted in their escape by the same prison officer they attacked.