(CNN)A manhunt is underway for two prisoners after at least one of them shot and killed two corrections officers on a bus Tuesday morning in central Georgia, authorities said.
Donnie Russell Rowe, 43, and Ricky Dubose, 24, were on a state corrections bus with 31 other inmates when the pair somehow got out of what should have been a locked, gated rear section about 6:45 a.m., officials said.
Rowe and Dubose entered the driver's compartment and overpowered and disarmed Officers Christopher Monica and Curtis Billue while the bus was on State Route 16 between Eatonton and Sparta, Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills said.
At least one of the prisoners shot and killed Monica and Billue, Sills said. They may be armed with the officers' Glock pistols.
Investigators will analyze footage from video cameras on the bus to determine how they got free and who pulled the trigger, the sheriff said. But as long as the suspects are missing, he called the matter of who opened fire "immaterial" for now.
"They are dangerous beyond description," Sills told reporters Tuesday. "They need to surrender before we find them."
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