Pakistan Jailbreak: Taliban Moves Prisoners

The Taliban claims to have smuggled more than two dozen militants they broke out of a prison to one of Pakistan's tribal regions.

Two Taliban commanders said the 25 militants had arrived in the South Waziristan tribal area and were travelling on to North Waziristan, Pakistan's main sanctuary for Taliban and al Qaeda militants.

Monday night's deadly jailbreak in the town of Dera Ismail Khan was codenamed Freedom From Death, cost 11.5 million rupees (£75,600) and took six months to plan, according to the commanders, who remained anonymous.

Eighteen of the 150 militants who took part were given special commando training, they claimed.

Guards at the prison said they were totally overwhelmed when the heavily-armed Taliban fighters staged the attack.

More than a dozen people were killed in the assault, including two of the attackers.

Police said more than 47 of the 252 prisoners who escaped have been captured.

The attack took six months to plan, according to the Taliban

Senior prison officials had reportedly been tipped off that an attack was likely but the security forces were still unprepared for the raid.

Hidayat Ullah, a policeman who was guarding the prison when the attack started, said he and several colleagues jumped into an armoured vehicle inside the prison grounds and drove to the main gate to defend the compound.

They directed fire at the gate after the militants blew it up, but a mortar or rocket-propelled grenade hit their vehicle, killing two policemen and wounding Mr Ullah and two others.

"After that, I don't know what happened," the policeman said from the hospital where he is being treated.

The Taliban carried out a similar attack on a prison elsewhere in the northwest less than 18 months ago.

The assaults raise serious questions about state institutions' capacity to battle the Taliban insurgency that has raged for years and killed tens of thousands of security personnel and civilians.

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