A child holds a weapon belonging to his father as he stands with his family who were displaced from their home, during a protest in Baghdad, Iraq, yesterday. Shi'ite militias attacked Sunni homes in Baghdad's religiously-mixed Hurriya district on Saturday, forcing more than 30 families to flee after the militias torched residences and killed at least one person. - Reuters

BAGHDAD (Reuters):

An Iraqi prison chief and his deputy were under arrest yesterday after Saddam Hussein's nephew, accused of funding the Sunni insurgency, escaped jail a day earlier, sparking a huge manhunt by police.

Ayman al-Sabawi, the son of Saddam's half brother, Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti, escaped Badoush prison near the northern city of Mosul on Saturday after the jail's night watch commander told colleagues he was transferring him to another prison.

Interior Ministry officials said they believed the commander had been bribed to help Sabawi escape. The night watch captain, whose family has also disappeared, convinced guards to free Sabawi after showing them a forged transfer form, they said.

"The Interior Minister has ordered that a committee be formed to investigate (the escape) and the arrest of the head of the prison and his deputy," ministry spokesman Major General Abdul Kareem Khalaf told state television.

Mosul police said the two officials had been detained late on Saturday night and were being questioned yesterday.