Convict disguised as woman recaptured

An escaped Egyptian prisoner was recaptured as he fled a police ambush disguised as a woman in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, security sources said on Saturday.

Adel Mohammed Dasouqi, 35, escaped from Cairo’s Abu Zaabal Prison earlier this year where he was serving a three-year sentence for robbery and extortion. He was accused of using fierce dogs to force shopkeepers and other people to pay him protection money.

Dasouqi was injured when he tried to escape by jumping from the third floor of a building as police closed in on him on Thursday, the security sources said.

They said he was dressed in a woman’s outfit, including a burqa that covers the face. "He suffered broken arms and legs. He is now being held at a military prison," one source said.

It was the second time that security forces have recaptured him since he broke out of Abu Zaabal during the chaos that accompanied the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak on February 11.

He was captured about a month ago but managed to escape from an Ismailia prison hospital where he was being held.

— Reuters