Video captures the moment a mafia boss escaped from prison in a getaway using bed sheets knotted together for a makeshift rope

• Footage shows an Italian mafia boss escaping from prison using knotted bed sheets as a rope.
• Marco Raduano made his getaway from Badu 'e Carros jail in Sardinia, Italy last week.

Video footage shows the dramatic escape of an Italian mafia boss using a makeshift rope of bed sheets knotted together to descend the outer wall of a high-security prison.

Marco Raduano escaped from Badu 'e Carros prison in Sardinia last week, and the surveillance footage capturing the Hollywood-esque getaway was shared widely on social media.

Raduano, who appeared to be wearing a tracksuit at the time, can be seen scaling down the side of the building and jumping down to the grass below with the help of the sheet-rope.

He is then seen making a run for the exterior wall of the prison and reportedly managed to make it into the nearby city of Nuro, according to The Times.

His escape from imprisonment went unnoticed for many hours, local news reported. Authorities said staff shortages contributed to Raduano's "daring escape," according to the local newspaper Il Messaggero.

"It seems he had everything ready and that the escape was well planned for some time," said Giovanni Villa, a local correctional officers' union leader, according to The Telegraph.

At the time of his escape, Raduano was serving a 19-year sentence for drug trafficking, Italian news agency ANSA reported. Local authorities said they are conducting a wide-ranging manhunt to find the head of the Sacra Corona Unita mafia in Puglia.

Hundreds of soldiers and police have been sent by the Italian government to Sardinia to aid in the search, per The Independent.

This comes about a month after Matteo Messina Denaro, a long-time fugitive mafia boss, was arrested in Sicily after several decades on the run.