8 SIMI activists, who escaped from Bhopal jail, killed in encounter

As police says eight prisoners who escaped from a high-security jail in Bhopal have been killed. Police said they have been killed the escapees outside the city in Madhya Pradesh after they withstand arrest.  The eight men used bed sheets to scale a wall, a senior police official Bhopal Rama Singh told the Press Trust of India news agency. Singh said the men belonged to the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (Simi). Simi was blamed by police for bombings of Mumbai commuter trains in 2006 which killed 187 people. An inquiry has been launched into the escape and the prison's superintendent has been suspended, reports say.