Guardia Civil officers are searching for two dangerous prisoners who managed to escape from the Sevilla II prison yesterday morning.
The prisoners were counted at 21:30 on Wednesday evening and then again at 08:00 on Thursday morning, at which time a discrepancy was noticed.
An investigation is underway to find out how the two men managed to get away, where lapses occurred and who was responsible. A string of errors, human and other, are believed to have happened to allow the two prisoners to escape.
The prisoners, one serving a seven and a half year sentence for robbery with violence and awaiting trial on a murder charge, apparently made a hole behind a mirror on their cell wall and broke open a small door used by plumbers to access piping.
Breaking windows with a mattress, climbing over the roof, running across the courtyard and scaling a barbed wire fence, the two men made their getaway.
Questions are also being asked as to why a violent prisoner awaiting trial for murder was being held in a remand facility rather than in a high security prison such as Morón de la Frontera.