Officials at Greek prison resign

ATHENS, Greece (CNN) - The director of a maximum-security prison and two of his colleagues resigned Monday after two inmates escaped by helicopter.

The Greek minister of justice, Nicholas Dendias, said he had asked for and received the resignations of the director, security secretary and head of inspection and control at Korydallos Prison, in a suburb of Athens.

"The government will not tolerate the current situation," he said in a written statement. "Those involved in this escape will be brought to justice and punished."

In the escape Sunday afternoon, two men hijacked a helicopter from Athens International Airport and dangled rope ladders to the roof of a prison building so inmates Nikos Paleokostas, 42, and Alket Riza, 34, could climb up, the Justice Ministry said.