一场假装的医疗急症、一次大胆的越狱，以及一场以17名囚犯被抓获而告终的36小时搜捕行动。
A fake medical emergency, an audacious jailbreak and a 36-hour search operation that ended with 17 prisoners being recaptured.
这些是印度泰米尔纳德邦一起案件的亮点，该案件已占据全国各大报纸的头版头条。
Those are the highlights of a story from India's Tamil Nadu state that has captured headlines across the country.
事情始于周一晚上，当时南部泰米尔纳德邦德尼县一所监狱的17名男子在制服狱警后逃脱，历时近两天后，警方分批将他们抓获，事件才告结束。
It began on Monday night after 17 men escaped from a prison in Theni district in the southern state after overpowering guards, and ended almost two days later with police catching them in batches.
这一事件引发了人们对印度监狱拥挤不堪的关注。警方称，德尼监狱关押了334名囚犯，而其设计容量仅为200人，导致一旦混乱爆发，当局便无法维持控制。
The incident has drawn attention to overcrowding in Indian prisons. Police say the Theni prison was housing 334 inmates against a capacity of 200, leaving authorities unable to maintain control once chaos broke out.
邦警方表示，已因涉嫌在该事件中玩忽职守而暂停了该监狱九名工作人员的职务。
The state police said it has suspended nine staff at the prison for alleged negligence in connection with the incident.
所有逃犯均为未决犯——即正在受审或等待受审的囚犯——其中18人关押在德尼泰坎帕蒂监狱的同一牢房内。
All the men who escaped were undertrials - inmates on trial or awaiting one - and 18 of them were in one cell at the prison in Thekkampatti in Theni.
据警方称，周一晚上当地时间22时30分（格林威治标准时间17:00），一名囚犯假装癫痫发作。其他同牢囚犯呼救，一名狱警前来查看，随即被囚犯制服。
On Monday night at 2230 local time (17:00 GMT), one of the prisoners acted like he was going through a seizure. The other cellmates shouted for help and a jail official responded.
随后，囚犯们冲出牢房，据报道袭击了另外两名狱警，夺走钥匙打开大门逃跑。虽然有17人逃脱，但一人立即返回了监狱。多名狱警在袭击中受伤。
He was soon overpowered by the prisoners, police said. The prisoners then got out of the cell, reportedly attacked two other jail guards and took away keys which they used to open the main gate and flee. While 17 escaped, one returned to the prison immediately.
“印度最大越狱案背后的‘主谋’” 警方消息人士向BBC泰米尔语组透露，他们正在调查部分狱警与逃犯之间是否存在串通。
Several prison personnel were injured in the attack.
泰米尔纳德邦监狱局局长桑迪普·拉托尔在新闻发布会上表示，此次越狱是由“人为失误”造成的。
The 'mastermind' behind India's biggest jailbreak Police sources told BBC Tamil that they were examining the possibility of collusion between some prison officials and the escaped men.
他说：“由于囚犯设法通过了由安保人员把守的三道关卡，显然存在违反安保规程的行为。”
Sandeep Rathore, Director General of Police for Prisons in Tamil Nadu, said in a press briefing that the jailbreak was caused by "human error".
事发时，仅有四名狱警值班，远低于维持州政府建议的 1:6 狱警与囚犯比例所需的人员配置——按核定的 200 名囚犯计算，本应配备 34 名狱警。警方随即展开大搜捕，调集全州警力。
"There was a clear breach of security protocol as the prisoners managed to pass through a three-tier barrier manned by security personnel," he said. At the time of the incident, only four guards were on duty, far below the staffing required to maintain the prescribed 1:6 guard-to-inmate ratio recommended by the state - which should have worked out to 34 guards against the approved strength of 200 prisoners.
警方在一份声明中表示：“先进技术、无人机监控、监控录像分析以及警务人员的不懈努力发挥了关键作用。”四名男子在附近一个村庄的汽车站被捕，第五名则在乘坐三轮车途中落网。
The police then launched a manhunt, calling forces from across the state. "Advanced technology, drone surveillance, CCTV footage analysis, and the tireless efforts of police personnel played a crucial role," the department said in a statement on Four men were arrested at a bus station in a nearby village, and the fifth was caught while he was travelling in a tuk-tuk.
对监狱附近一片森林的无人机搜索，导致又有八名越狱囚犯被抓获。逮捕现场的视频显示，这些男子听从警察指令，但拒绝回答现场记者的提问。
A drone search of a forest near the prison led to eight more escaped prisoners being caught. Videos of the arrests showed the men obeying police instructions even as they did not answer questions from reporters who were also seen at the scene.
警方称，又有两名男子在无人机监控协助下被捕，最后两名男子于周三投降。
Two more were captured with the help of drone surveillance, police said, while the last two men surrendered on Wednesday.
印度新闻社 PTI 报道，所有 17 名被抓回的囚犯已被转移至高安保级别的惩教监狱。
News agency PTI reported that all 17 recaptured prisoners have been moved to high-security correctional prisons.
拉托尔告诉媒体，全州所有监狱都将接受审计，以检查是否遵守了相关规定。
Rathore told media that all prisons across the state would be audited to check if rules were being followed.
此事勾起了人们对 1995 年泰米尔纳德邦最大越狱案之一的记忆，当时 43 名疑似武装分子在一座历史古堡下挖掘了一条长达 153 英尺（约 46.6 米）的隧道，从一处特别营地逃脱。其中一些人至今未被抓获。
The incident evoked memories of one of the biggest jailbreaks in Tamil Nadu in 1995 when 43 suspected militants escaped from a special camp after digging a 153-foot-long tunnel beneath a historic fort. Some of them were never recaptured.
在调查进行之际，该事件引发了关于印度监狱拥挤问题的讨论。国家犯罪记录局 2023 年发布的最新《印度监狱统计》报告显示，全国监狱入住率为 120.1%。
While the investigation is going on, the incident has sparked a conversation on overcrowding in Indian prisons. The National Crime Records Bureau's last Prison Statistics India report from 2023 showed a national occupancy rate of 120.1%.
数据显示，未决犯——即在等待警方调查或法庭审判期间被羁押的人员——占印度监狱总人数的73%以上。人权组织和法律专家也对调查和审判的延误表示担忧，这些延误导致人们在狱中滞留数年。
Data shows that undertrial prisoners - individuals who are detained while they await police investigation or court trials - make up more than 73% of India's total prison population. Human rights groups and legal experts have also raised concerns about delays in investigations and trials that lead to people languishing for years behind bars.