NIBONG TEBAL, Jan 25 — Police have launched Op Tutup to track down a detainee who escaped while receiving treatment at Sungai Bakap Hospital (HSB) here last Friday.

Penang deputy police chief Datuk Mohd Alwi Zainal Abidin said the suspect, identified as S. Clemont, 47, was discovered missing at about 3.45 pm and was last seen wearing a blue-and-white hospital gown.