Police seek two inmates wrongly freed

LONDON -- British police were undertaking two more searches Wednesday after the news that two prisoners had been mistakenly released from prison over the past week, just days after the government had brought in more stringent checks.

Police said the two were wrongly freed from Wandsworth Prison in southwest London, which was built in the middle of the 19th century and which last year was put into special measures after another prisoner escaped by clinging to the underside of a food delivery truck.

London's Metropolitan Police said Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, was wrongly freed on Oct. 29, while Surrey Police, southwest of the capital, said it is hunting for William Smith, 35, who was also accidentally released on Monday.

The Met said that it was only

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