紐約州警察繼續搜捕兩越獄殺人犯大綱

Police in New York state searched Tuesday for two convicted killers after they were reported walking along a road in a driving rainstorm the night before.

Dozens of police armed with rifles walked through farms and fields near the town of Willsboro as they tried to apprehend David Sweat and Richard Matt.

Authorities believe the two men are on foot after a daring escape last week from a maximum security prison farther north in Dannemora, located near the Canadian border.

Officials say Sweat and Matt used power tools to carve out their escape route from their cells to a manhole cover in a nearby street.

Questions have been raised about how the inmates obtained the tools, and why the noise did not draw the attention of prison staff or other inmates.

Sweat was serving a life sentence for the 2002 death of a sheriff's deputy. Matt faced 25 years to life in prison on murder, kidnapping and robbery charges following the 1997 killing of a man.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the duo "definitely had help" in their escape.美國紐約州警察星期二繼續搜捕兩名被定罪的殺人犯，之前有人看見他們星期一夜間冒雨在一條公路步行。

幾十名持槍警察星期三在紐約州威爾斯伯羅鎮附近的農場和田地搜捕越獄潛逃的大衛·斯威特和理查德·馬特。當局認爲這兩人上星期從靠近加拿大邊界的丹尼莫拉鎮高度警戒的監獄越獄後徒步逃亡。

警方說，斯威特和馬特使用電動工具從牢房一直挖掘到附近大街的地下管道，然後從出口逃出。

人們對此提出疑問：犯人如何獲得電動工具以及爲什麼噪音沒有引起監獄看守和其他犯人的注意。

斯威特2002年因殺死一名警長而被判處無期徒刑。馬特1997年殺死一名男子後被控謀殺、綁架和搶劫，被判處25年監禁。

紐約州州長安德魯·科莫說，這兩人得以越獄一定得到了其他人的幫助。