About 500 prisoners have escaped today from a prison in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, through a tunnel dug 360 meters for five months. The inmates, mostly Taliban, were in the prison block housing the convicted politicians. "A tunnel several hundred feet to escape served to 476 political prisoners," said the prison director, Gen.
Ghulam Dastagir Mayar, information confirmed by the Governor of the province, Tooryalai Wesa. However, the Afghan police confirmed the leak only 400 of these prisoners. For its part, the Taliban have claimed the leak, which as it has allowed out of prison inmates to 541 (106 majors), in a statement.
The Afghan authorities defined as political prisoners or militant Taliban commanders who have been arrested in combat or terrorist attacks. Waheed Omar, spokesman for President Hamid Karzai has described the leak of "disaster that should not have happened." A Taliban leader has indicated that the tunnel excavation started on the outside of the prison and took five months to reach the area where the escaped prisoners are held.
According to this source, the Taliban prisoners rescued with a string of suicide if the security forces discovered the leak. "The release began at eleven p.m. (19.30 yesterday, Spanish time) and only three prisoners knew the plan," said the Taliban leader in a note issued by an Afghan news agency.
"They were waking up to the companions one by one. The last came at three-thirty in the morning." "It was a hard blow," said the president's spokesman at a press conference. "We are investigating what exactly happened and what should we do to repair the disaster that has taken place in Kandahar." Nevertheless, the Governor of Kandahar has ensured that some of the escapees had been arrested again, although no precise number.
It has also launched a "comprehensive search operation in the vicinity of Kandahar." In any event, admitted that the leak has taken by surprise at the security forces and investigative services. This is the second mass escape from this prison of Kandahar. In 2008, about one thousand prisoners escaped from prison, after the Taliban destroyed the gates by a bomb hidden in a truck. 
Ghulam Dastagir Mayar, information confirmed by the Governor of the province, Tooryalai Wesa. However, the Afghan police confirmed the leak only 400 of these prisoners. For its part, the Taliban have claimed the leak, which as it has allowed out of prison inmates to 541 (106 majors), in a statement.
The Afghan authorities defined as political prisoners or militant Taliban commanders who have been arrested in combat or terrorist attacks. Waheed Omar, spokesman for President Hamid Karzai has described the leak of "disaster that should not have happened." A Taliban leader has indicated that the tunnel excavation started on the outside of the prison and took five months to reach the area where the escaped prisoners are held.
According to this source, the Taliban prisoners rescued with a string of suicide if the security forces discovered the leak. "The release began at eleven p.m. (19.30 yesterday, Spanish time) and only three prisoners knew the plan," said the Taliban leader in a note issued by an Afghan news agency.
"They were waking up to the companions one by one. The last came at three-thirty in the morning." "It was a hard blow," said the president's spokesman at a press conference. "We are investigating what exactly happened and what should we do to repair the disaster that has taken place in Kandahar." Nevertheless, the Governor of Kandahar has ensured that some of the escapees had been arrested again, although no precise number.
It has also launched a "comprehensive search operation in the vicinity of Kandahar." In any event, admitted that the leak has taken by surprise at the security forces and investigative services. This is the second mass escape from this prison of Kandahar. In 2008, about one thousand prisoners escaped from prison, after the Taliban destroyed the gates by a bomb hidden in a truck.
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