Hundreds of Prisoners Escape from Jail in Afghanistan

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World News - More than 470 inmates escaped from a prison in Afghanistan through a long tunnel hundreds of meters.

The prison officials in the city of Kandahar said the tunnel has been dug from outside the prison and most of the inmates who escaped were Taliban insurgents.

Meanwhile, the governor's office in Kandahar claimed to have arrested again a few inmates who escaped, but did not give the exact number of how many who have been arrested again.

Inroad jail time this is a case of escape from the second largest prison in the last three years.

In June 2008, suicide bombers blew up the gates of Kandahar prison and destroy a nearby checkpoint. The incident made ​​hundreds of prisoners escape, where most of them were rebels. Kandahar prison holding approximately 1200 inmates.

"The tunnel has been dug along hundreds of meters from the south prison to prison and 476 prisoners escaped last night," the warden said Gen. Ghulam Dastageer Mayar told the BBC on Monday (4/25/2011).

International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) led by NATO is ready to provide assistance if the Afghan Government officials request it.


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