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The police has released the photo of one of the two remand prisoners who escaped from lawful custody from the Tepa District Police in the Ahafo Ano North District of the Ashanti Region on Monday.

The police also released pictures of how the escapees cut the reinforced iron bars at the back of the cell with hacksaw blades and escaped through the opening.

Police have since mounted a search for the two escapees, Ernest Owusu Affram, 26 and Shadrach Nyame, 39.

The two were said to have escaped between the hours of 1am and 2am.

According to the police, preliminary investigations indicated that the prisoners did not use one day to execute their escape and that they used several days to cut the metal.

Affram was arrested some six months ago for defrauding by false pretense and was being tried by the Tepa Circuit court. 

He was expected at the court on Monday for the ruling on the case while Nyame was being held for stealing.

Some people saw the two escaping from the cells and hinted the police.

However, by the time the police got to the area, the two had run away.

The police have deployed men into the town in search of the escapees and appealed to the public to help arrest them.

This is the second time in less than a month that suspects in police cells have escaped from lawful custody.

On March 15, 2015, seven suspected criminals who were in lawful custody at the Denu police station for various offences runaway.