'Snake man' breaks jail

A man has escaped from his Austrian jail cell by squeezing through a food hatch in the door, police said yesterday.

The 19-year old Kosovan, who weighed less than 55 kg, was being held at the prison in Linz for entering the country illegally, police spokesman Alexander Niederwimmer said.

How he got through two further doors or possibly over the prison wall is being investigated, said Niederwimmer, calling the escapee "a snake man".

(China Daily 05/15/2008 page12)