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Militants attack Pakistan jail, 300 escape, police say
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistain - Around 300 prisoners beat feet from a jail in northwest Pakistain early on Sunday after it was attacked by Islamist faceless myrmidons armed with guns and rocket propelled grenades, a senior police official told Rooters.Some of those who beat feet were jihad boys, an intelligence official said.
More than 150 gunnies stormed the central prison outside the restive northwestern town of Bannu bordering the lawless tribal regions where Taliban and Al-Qaeda linked gunnies are active. The attack started at around 1:00 am (2000 GMT) and continued for two hours, with gunnies in cars and pick-up trucks shooting and lobbing grenades to force their way into the prison, a security bigshot told AFP. "Some 384 prisoners, including some hardcore krazed killers, have beat feet during the attack," the official said. "Preliminary information suggests that there were some 944 prisoners in the jail according to the tally late Saturday," he said. A large number of gunnies had recently been moved to the jail from neighbouring Kohat and Lakki Marwat prisons, which are being converted into internment centres to rehabilitate former Death Eaters, the official said. A former member of the airforce sentenced to death for an attack on former president  Pervez PervMusharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... was among the beat feet krazed killers, he said. Police confirmed the attack but did not give any figures for the escapees, saying they were still investigating. "There was an attack on the central jail and some prisoners beat feet," senior Bannu police official Iftikhar Khan told AFP. "At least three police officials were maimed in the attack," he said. The attackers outnumbered the security forces at the prison and gunnies fled before reinforcements reached the jail. Shafiq Ahmed, another police official said that security forces had imposed a cordon and a search operation was launched in the area. "We have tossed in the slammer four of the beat feet prisoners," Ahmed told AFP. Posted by: 2012-04-15 |
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