Drug cartel members tunnel way out of Paraguay prison

Officials believed complicit in escape of at least 75 prisoners, including members of notorious Brazilian gang

At least 75 inmates, including members of Brazil's most powerful gang, have escaped from a Paraguayan prison on Sunday after digging a tunnel in an operation of which prison officials were believed to have been aware, the government said.

Officials said they discovered a tunnel and found cells filled with as many as 200 bags of earth. Authorities said they immediately fired the prison's director.