Some families take their children back to the drug detoxification centre after 119 drug users escaped in Tien Giang Province on Wednesday.

Police in Mekong Delta Tien Giang Province and staff at the centre are trying to find the addicts to encourage them to continue the treatment programme. 

Nguyen Van Be Ba, director of the drug detoxification centre under the provincial Department of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs, said on Wednesday afternoon, 66 out of 119 escaped addicts were brought back the centre.

Earlier, around 10am on Wednesday, 119 addicts fled despite the centre staff's efforts to prevent them escaping.

After leaving the detox centre, they divided into several groups and some of them stole clothes, bicycles and motorbikes of nearby households to flee. — VNS