Saskatchewan inmate escape leads to searches in Yorkton, Saskatoon: RCMP - BERITAJA

Police successful Saskatchewan are connected the hunt for Duncan Highway, a 34-year-old inmate who escaped from a Yorkton, Sask., corrections centre, the RCMP said.

Highway escaped from the Whitespruce Provincial Training Centre connected Thursday, about 6:15 p.m. He was past seen getting successful a achromatic SUV, according to a news merchandise from the Saskatchewan RCMP.

Mounties said they person been searching since he was reported missing from the facility, almost an hr later astatine 7:05 p.m.

“Yorkton RCMP person been searching for the prisoner, checking places he is known to predominant and pursuing up connected accusation received,” the constabulary said.

He is said to person escaped successful a GMC Terrain, which picked him up from the facility. The RCMP are asking group successful southbound Saskatchewan to support an oculus retired for the conveyance — arsenic good arsenic Highway himself.

The escapee is described arsenic six feet gangly and 178 lbs., according to police. He was said to person brownish eyes and brownish hair, and was past seen wearing achromatic clothes.

“He has connections to Saskatoon, but his existent whereabouts are unknown,” the merchandise added.

People who judge they’ve spotted Highway are being urged by the work to interaction their section constabulary unit and debar approaching, aliases confronting, the escaped inmate.

The 34-year-old will look an further escape-related charge, the RCMP said.