ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A British man suspected in a plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jetliners escaped from police custody in Pakistan on Saturday, officials said.
Rashid Rauf fled after appearing before a judge at a court in the capital, said Khalid Pervez, a city police official.
Police teams were driving around the area in search of Rauf, who Pervez said had managed to open his handcuffs and evade two police guards who were taking him back to jail in the nearby city of Rawalpindi.
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