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| Armed US prisoner on the run after escaping from Virginia hospital | |
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| An armed prisoner was on the run on Tuesday after escaping from a hospital near Washington DC where a shot was fired during a struggle with a guard, police said. | |
| The prisoner, identified as Wossen Assaye by the Fairfax County police department, broke free from a private security guard at Inova Fairfax hospital in Falls Church, Virginia, and fled with the guard’s weapon, the department said on Twitter. | |
| Police said Assaye was being held by the nearby city of Alexandria on federal charges of armed bank robbery and was taken to a local hospital after he tried to harm himself. | |
| While at the medical centre, Assaye overpowered the guard and took his gun, police said. One shot was fired, but no one was injured. | |
| Roads around the hospital were closed off as authorities from several different agencies searched for the suspect, who was dressed only in a hospital gown. | |
| The hospital was also locked down and employees were told to go to a local high school to board a shuttle bus to the facility, police said. | |
| Footage posted online by the local broadcaster WJLA showed a heavy police presence outside the hospital, with several police cars on surrounding streets. | |
| Representatives of the hospital, which is about 15 miles (24 km) west of Washington DC, could not be reached for comment. |