 Nineteen prisoners escaped after attackers opened fire and hurled bombs at a court complex in eastern India, local media reported on Tuesday. Five people were injured in the attack on a district court building in Hazaribagh district of eastern Jharkhand state, police told the Press Trust of India. They said the attack was probably aimed at freeing the suspects. Some were facing charges of murder, local television reported. Forty-one prisoners were about to board a prison van after their court appearances when the unidentified assailants launched their attack in which at least three bombs were hurled, district police chief Ashish Batra said. Police fired back on the attackers and on prisoners trying to flee, he said. Maoist rebels operate in Hazaribagh but police could not immediately confirm whether this was a rebel attack. |