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Afghan police shoot two fugitives
[Iran Press TV] Two prison escapees have been rubbed out while 26 others have been recaptured after hundreds of cut-throats beat feet from a jail overnight in troubled southern Afghanistan.Tooryalai Wesa, the governor of Kandahar Province says security forces will continue the operation to recapture other inmates who broke out of Kandahar prison, a Press TV correspondent reported. Nearly 500 inmates beat feet through a 360-meter-long tunnel, which cut-throats had dug from the outside. Reports say the beat feet inmates are all Talibs, who represented over one-third of the prison's total population. There were over a hundred Taliban capos among the escapees. This is the second major escape in Kandahar in three years. In 2008, around 1,000 prisoners beat feet after the Taliban used a truck bomb to blow open the jail's gates. The deadly incidents come as Talibs are believed to have been making inroads in different parts of Afghanistan. The surge in violence comes despite the presence of 150,000 foreign troops in the country. The US-led invasion took place in 2001 with the official objective of curbing militancy and bringing peace and stability to the war-ravaged country. Anti-war groups have highlighted the fact that Afghanistan still remains unstable ten years after the invasion. Posted by: Fred 2011-04-26 |
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