Taliban insurgents dug a more than 320 metres of underground tunnel and in the prison main in the city of Kandahar and taken more than 450 prisoners, with most officials, Taliban fighters and insurgents, said Monday.
The mass jailbreak of day to the next in the second largest city of the Afghanistan serves as a reminder of the continuing weak Afghan Government in the South, despite the arrival of international troops, financing and consulting. In particular, the city of Kandahar, has been a priority of the international effort to establish a strong presence of the Afghan Government in former Taliban strongholds.
1 200-Detainee Sarposa Prison is part of this plan. The facility has undergone upgrades security and procedures tightened following a Taliban attack 2008 blatantly releasing 900 prisoners. Regularly, afghan Government officials and their supporters of NATO said that the prison has greatly improved security since the attack.
But Sunday night, about 475 prisoners streamed out of a tunnel dug between the prison and outside and disappeared into the city of Kandahar, Ghulam said Mayar prison supervisor. He said that the majority of the missing is militant Taliban.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said insurgents on the dug out the tunnel in prison more five months, bypassing government control points and the main roads. The tunnel eventually reached prison cells Sunday night, and prisoners were inaugurated through her freedom by three prisoners who had been informed of the plan, said Mujahid.
He said more than 500 prisoners were released and that about 100 of them were Taliban commanders.
Four of those who escaped were provincial level Taliban commanders, said Qari Yousef Ahmadi, an another Taliban spokesman.
The highest profile Taliban detainees would be probably not held in Sarposa. Inmates in the custody of the U.S. he sees as a threat in a facility outside the Air Base of Bagram in the East of the Afghanistan. Other key Taliban prisoners are held by the Afghan Government in a wing of the main prison security in Kabul.
A man who spokesman Taliban said is one of the detainees who helped to organize the escape of the Interior, said that a group of inmates obtained copies of the keys to the cells in advance.
"There are four or five of us who knew that our friends were digging a tunnel from the outside", said Mohammad Abdullah, who said he was in the Sarposa prison for two years after having been captured in near the Zhari district with a stock of weapons. "Some of our friends helped us by providing copies of keys." "When the time came at night, we have managed open the doors of the friends who were in the other rooms".
He said they he was awakened inmates up to four or five at once to lift quietly. Abdullah spoke by telephone on a number provided by a spokesman for the Taliban. His account could not be verified immediately.
The Governor of Kandahar province confirmed at least 475 escaped and said that a search operation is going to resume their.
"Some prisoners have already been recaptured,", said the Governor Tooryalai Wesa. He provided no details.
(A) asked how the tunnel was dug without the person noting, Wesa said only that the incident was still under investigation.
In 2008, attack, dozens of activists on motorcycles and two suicide bombers attacked the prison. A suicide bomber triggered a tanker truck loaded with explosives at the door of prison while a second suicide bomber detonated an escape through a rear wall route. About 900 detained including 400 Taliban fighters escaped.
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