SANAA, Feb. 26 (Xinhuanet) -- Three members from a group of 23 al-Qaida detainees who escaped from a prison in Yemen have given themselves up to police.

    The others remaining at large were still in Yemen and some were negotiating with authorities over their surrender, said an interior ministry official on Sunday.

    The 23 al-Qaida convicts, who were all kept in the same cell, tunneled out of a high-security jail on Feb. 3.

    The fugitives include a man convicted of the 2000 bombing of the destroyer USS Cole off the southern port of Aden, in which 17 U.S. sailors were killed, and another convicted of the 2002 attack on the French oil tanker Limburg.

    The Yemeni government has offered a reward of 25,500 dollars for information that could lead to the capture of any of the fugitives. Enditem