GHAZNI CITY (SW): The Taliban staged an overnight prison break in southern Ghazni province leaving at least 400 rebels escape and four police guards killed.
Local officials said the militants were wearing military uniforms when they waged attack on the central prison in the provincial capital. Mohammad Ali Ahmadi, deputy provincial has said attack was started by a suicide bomber that was followed by armed rebels entering the compound and shooting at guards.
A Taliban spokesman has said the attack began at around 02:00 am local time Monday 14 September and lasted for several hours during which the prison was overrun, several security personnel killed and wounded as well as some 400 inmates allowed to escape. In a message, the militants said three of their suicide attackers died in the process.
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