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Canada inmates in helicopter escape
The men were being held at Orsainville detention centre, just outside Quebec City
Three detainees have escaped from a jail in Quebec province by helicopter, police in eastern Canada say.
The helicopter swooped down late on Saturday and is believed to have flown off with the prisoners to the west, possibly towards Montreal.
The men were being held at the Orsainville detention centre, near Quebec City, pending their trial.
The public are being warned not to approach the men but to contact the police immediately if they see them.
It is the second jailbreak involving a helicopter in Quebec province in just over a year.
In March 2013, two inmates fled from a prison near Montreal by climbing up a rope into a waiting helicopter.
The missing inmates have been named by police as Yves Denis (35), Denis Lefebvre (53) and Serge Pomerleau (49), however there are no details of the charges against them.
CBC news said two of them were detained by provincial police in 2010 after a drugs bust known as Project Crayfish that led to dozens of arrests.
