Two prisoners who staged a daring weekend escape from jail in eastern Canada using a hijacked helicopter have been re-arrested, authorities said Monday.
The inmates were lifted out of Saint-Jerome prison near Montreal on Sunday by accomplices who had seized a helicopter, forcing its pilot to hover over the jail rooftop while the two were hauled up on a rope ladder. Police in the French-speaking province of Quebec where the incident took place said they soon found the pilot unharmed, but suffering from shock. They also quickly tracked down one of the prisoners - Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau - along with his two outside accomplices.