Gunmen used "very heavy weapons" to attack a prison in Greece and free 11 inmates.
Two guards were injured as they attempted to fight off the six attackers, who turned the jail perimeter into a "battlefield".
Guns, grenades, a van and a pickup truck were used in the breakout at 8.30pm local time on Friday.
It kicked off a night-long standoff between police and the remaining prisoners at the facility near the town of Trikala, 200 miles northwest of Athens.
Two of the men who escaped were later captured after being found hiding in a church nearby.
A manhunt is underway to track down the others, who the authorities said were all Albanian.
The Ministry of Justice said the gunmen used "two vehicles and very heavy weapons" to attack the perimeter guards, as well as a prison patrol vehicle and two police cars.
"During the exchange of heavy fire that lasted over half an hour and turned the area into a battlefield, two guards were injured in the abdomen, one of them seriously," the ministry said.
At least five grenades exploded and army experts were called to the prison to dispose of two unexploded grenades.
Trikala city councillor Costas Tassios, who lives in the nearby village of Krinitsa, said: "It was like a war was going on. There was so much gunfire."
A bullet fired at the village damaged a coffee shop window, but no members of the public are thought to have been hurt.
The escaped prisoners used ropes and bed sheets tied together to climb down from a guard tower.
Police set up roadblocks near the prison and searched vacant homes and farm buildings as two helicopters scoured the surrounding countryside.
The attack was the latest dramatic incident at Greek prisons, which are suffering from serious overcrowding and staff shortages as the country struggles through a financial crisis.
Last month, guards foiled a breakout attempt by four inmates who tried to escape by helicopter from Trikala prison.
Among them was the notorious gangster Panagiotis Vlastos, who is serving life for murder and racketeering.
On March 17, a convicted contract killer, Albanian Alket Rizaj, took several prison guards hostage in an attempt to escape from another jail in central Greece.
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