By AFP
Italian mafia boss Rocco Morabito has fled prison in the Uruguayan capital Montevideo where he was awaiting extradition to Italy, the interior ministry announced Monday.
Morabito and three other inmates “escaped through a hole in the roof of the building” late Sunday.
They then robbed the occupants of a nearby farmhouse, the ministry said in a statement.
The statement said Morabito was awaiting extradition for “international drug trafficking”.
Morabito, a top ‘Ndrangheta figure, was arrested in Uruguay in 2017 after decades on the run.
Before his arrest in 2017, Morabito was wanted for more than 20 years for drug trafficking and mafia activities.
