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Police have launched manhunt for four awaiting trial prisoners who escaped from police cells in Bela Bela, Limpopo on Sunday night.

Five prisoners managed to escape just before 22:00 and one of them, Clifford Cleo Mutonhon (29), was cornered and re-arrested just outside the police station yard. The other four fled into the darkness and are still at large.

Their names are as follows:
• Silence Dube (29) from 2205 Block R Soshanguve.
• Philani Sithole (30) from 116003 Kgwadi Stand Winterbeldt, Mabopane
• Thabang Dube (30) also from Winterveldt, Mabopane
• Joshua Mogashoa.

All five prisoners were arrested for armed robbery that was committed along the N1 freeway between Pienaars rivier and Bela Bela.

The circumstances of the escape are still being investigated.