Taliban free 600 in attack on jail
Updated on 14 June 2008
More than 600 prisoners escaped during a brazen Taliban bomb and rocket attack on the main prison in southern Afghanistan. At least nine police were killed.
The complex attack late on Friday included a truck bombing at the main gate, a suicide bomber who struck a back wall and rockets fired from inside the prison courtyard, setting off a series of explosions that rattled Kandahar, the country's second biggest city.
A Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, said 30 insurgents on motorbikes and two suicide bombers attacked Sarposa Prison and freed about 400 Taliban members.
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