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Afghan prison admits massive jail break
Monday April 25, 2011
Nearly 500 Taliban prisoners have escaped from Kandahar prison in southern Afghanistan through a tunnel hundreds of metres long, officials say.
The Taliban said it was behind the huge jail break and that all of those who escaped were members of the militant Islamist organisation.
"A tunnel hundreds of metres long was dug from the south of the prison into the prison and 476 political prisoners escaped last night," said prison director General Ghulam Dastageer Mayar.
The acting police chief of Kandahar, Shair Shah Yousufzai, also confirmed the escape, saying: "Last night some political prisoners broke out of the prison and have escaped."
Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi said the militants were responsible for the mass break-out.
"Prisoners dug a 360-metre-long tunnel to the south of the prison.
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