Four hundred seventy Taliban insurgents who had been captured in Afghanistan escaped from a prison in Kandahar province. They made their escape via a tunnel dug out of a prison cell. Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban, said that the tunnel was 1,180ft (360m) long and took over five months to dig. The escape took place over night and friendly vehicles awaited the escapees at the tunnel's exit.
According to the BBC, this is the second major prison break in Kandahar in three years. "In June 2008 a suicide bomber blew open the Kandahar prison gates and destroyed a nearby checkpoint, freeing about 900 prisoners, many of them suspected insurgents."
-BBC World News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13184920
According to the BBC, this is the second major prison break in Kandahar in three years. "In June 2008 a suicide bomber blew open the Kandahar prison gates and destroyed a nearby checkpoint, freeing about 900 prisoners, many of them suspected insurgents."
-BBC World News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13184920
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