Second New York prison escapee shot and captured

Second New York state prison escapee David Sweat, who escaped Clinton Correctional Facility on June 6, is in custody after being shot by police, US media report say.

The 35-year-old convicted murderer was injured and taken into custody by law enforcement officers near the Canadian border on Sunday, two days after his fellow escapee was shot dead.

"At approximately 3:20 pm on June 28, a member of the New York State Police spotted a suspicious man walking down a roadway in the Town of Constable," police said on Sunday in a statement.

"The State Police member shot and injured Clinton Correctional Facility escapee David Sweat. Sweat was taken into police custody alive, then taken to a local hospital for treatment of his injuries," it added.

The statement said Sweat’s condition was "unknown."

Richard Matt, the other convicted murderer, was shot and killed by police in woods in the town of Malone a few miles from the Canadian border on Friday.

The two murderers broke out of Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York, 22 days ago.

Matt was in jail for kidnapping, torture and hacksaw dismemberment of his former boss in 1997. Sweat was in prison for killing a sheriff's deputy.

In a Hollywood-style prison break on June 6, the prisoners used power tools to cut their way out of their jail cells before dawn.

Their escape had triggered an intense manhunt involving some 1,200 law enforcement officers backed by sniffer dogs and helicopters.

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