Six Taliban fighters storm prison grounds and free 355 inmates,148 of them insurgents charged with security crimesTaliban fighters have carried out a mass jailbreak in the central Afghan city of Ghazni, freeing hundreds of prisoners and leaving security officials with the uncomfortable job of explaining how such an incident could happen once again.
The Taliban attacked the prison at 2am on Monday, or firing rocket-propelled grenades at the watchtowers and sending a suicide bomber in a Toyota Corolla to blow himself up external the prison gates,according to Mohammad Ali Ahmadi, Ghazni’s deputy governor.
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Source: theguardian.com