In a strange case of jailbreak, a Lithuanian prisoner in an Arctic Norway jail literally slipped out of custody by stripping naked, smearing his body with vegetable oil and sliding through the prison bars.

According to Svein-Erik Jacobsen, operation leader for the Oest-Finnmark Police District, "He slipped through the bars on Christmas Eve." The strange method used for jailbreak was a subject of national news in Norway on Wednesday.

According to AP reports, another Lithuanian however failed to escape by the same technique as he was too big. However, the convicts had managed to bend the bars slightly to gain more space.

"It was a good effort," Jacobsen said. "But all he did was get his head and part of his shoulder through the bars."

According to a police news release, the escaped suspects have been identified as Yuris Sinkevicius, 25. He is said to be 5 feet, 8 inches tall and thin.