A prisoner escaped from a hospital in Pattaya early on Saturday after undergoing surgery to treat a penis infection, police said.

Thai police still hunting for escaped convict in South

Officials from the Pattaya Remand Prison alerted police that the man had fled Bang Lamung Hospital in the Na Klua area of the beach town in Chon Buri, said Pol Col Nawin Sinthurat, chief of the Bang Lamung police station, who was alerted about 2am.

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