Bhubaneswar: Five suspected terrorists of banned outfit Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), who had escaped from a jail in Madhya Praddesh, have been arrested in Odisha's Rourkela city, police said on Wednesday.

The five terrorists, including a woman, were absconding from Khandwa Jail in Madhya Pradesh and were nabbed late Tuesday from a house in steel city of Rourkela in a joint operation by Odisha police, Telangana police and Intelligence Bureau.