SEREMBAN: An inmate who escaped from the Nilai Inmate Reintegration Centre (PRP), near here on Tuesday (Dec 28) was recaptured at a petrol station about five hours later.

       Nilai Police chief Supt Mohd Fazley Ab Rahman said the 29-year-old man escaped from the PRP at 12.54 pm.

       "Nilai Police headquarters mounted a search with the help of the K9 Unit of the Negeri Sembilan Police Contingent headquarters to track him down.

       "At 5.15pm, the police detained the inmate at a petrol station located about four kilometres from the PRP," he said in a statement here on Wednesday (Dec 29).

       Mohd Fazley said the prisoner was sentenced to five years jail in 2019 for offences under Section 6 (1) of the Corrosive and Explosive Substances and Offensive Weapons Act 1958 and placed at the PRP for rehabilitation after serving a two-year jail sentence at the Kajang Prison, Selangor. - Bernama