A former Argentine army officer, convicted of crimes against humanity, has escaped in Buenos Aires.
Alejandro Lawless was sentenced in 2010 for crimes committed during military rule between 1976 and 1983.
Lawless was being taken to a court in the capital when he absconded from a van, making him the third convicted military officer to escape from prison this year.
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