SINGAPORE: World police group Interpol has issued an urgent global security alert for Mas Selamat Kastari, the Singapore leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah militant network, who escaped from a Singapore detention centre on Wednesday.
Interpol posted an Orange Notice, or urgent worldwide security alert, on its website, after a request from Singapore. The Orange Notice means the militant leader's photograph and fingerprints will be issued to each of Interpol's 186 national central bureaus.
Meanwhile, Singapore continued to search for Mas Selamat who escaped from the Whitley Road Detention Centre on Wednesday afternoon.
Police officers were seen combing the area along Lornie Road, and around the Caldecott Broadcast Centre. They also put pamphlets in the mailboxes of the low-rise houses along Andrew Road.
The search team also looked around the cemetery on Sime Road.
Earlier the Home Affairs Ministry said security has been tightened at all places and buildings in the vicinity of where he might have escaped to or could be hiding.
The Ministry was responding to a query from Channel NewsAsia on whether security personnel have pulled out from the Whitley Road area where the search for Mas Selamat had centred.
The fugitive walks with a limp and is not known to be armed.
Photos of Mas Selamat, both clean-shaven and with a beard, have been released by officials who are appealing to the public to come forward if they have information on the fugitive's whereabouts. They can contact the Police at 999. - CNA/ir