Authorities are closing in on Friendship, New York, after a witness reported seeing escaped inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat along a railroad line Saturday, according to New York State Police.
The convicted murderers have been on the run for 16 days after using power tools to escape from Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York. Friendship, a small town near the Pennsylvania border, is more than 300 miles southwest of the prison.
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