AT least two prisoners from the Marikina City jail were slain in a shootout with police during a hostage taking incident on Thursday, an official said.

In a phone interview with The Manila Times, Col. Benliner Capili, officer-in-charge, did not disclose the identities of the fatalities but described them as "rape inmates" who broke out from their cells.

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