Dharmanagar, Oct. 4 -- In a breakthrough, North Tripura Police have re-arrested two convicts who escaped from the Kalikapur Sub-Jail in Dharmanagar during the early hours of Navami, police said.

The jailbreak, which took place on October 1, saw six convicted prisoners flee custody, triggering a massive manhunt across the region.

On Wednesday evening, police detained Abdul Patta of Nilam Bazaar, Assam, along with a vehicle from Dharmanagar's West Chandrapur area. Acting on further intelligence inputs, security forces later nabbed another fugitive, Narayan Dutta, son of Shubhankar Choudhury, from Malakarpura near the India-Bangladesh border on Thursday afternoon.

According to sources, the arrest was made possible through coordinated acti...