Authorities in Georgia said a manhunt was underway Tuesday after two inmates killed a pair of prison guards and escaped while being transported through a rural area southeast of Atlanta. Both inmates are white men who records show had been held at Baldwin State Prison, a facility about 170 kilometres southeast of Atlanta, and they were being transported between Hancock State Prison and Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison. According to police in Athens, Georgia, the inmates committed a burglary in Madison, Georgia, and changed out of their white prison clothes. According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, which tracks line-of-duty deaths, the two Georgia guards are the third and fourth corrections officer killed in the line of duty this year. Steven Floyd, a veteran Delaware corrections official who died in February during a day-long hostage standoff at a state prison.

Source: National Post June 14, 2017 19:07 UTC