Afghan forces recaptured at least 65 of the prisoners who escaped from the largest prison in southern Afghanistan, the government said Tuesday. The authorities are struggling to recover from the massive security breach that allowed 480 prisoners on Monday achieved a spectacular escape. Prison authorities discovered Monday morning that the convicted Taliban almost all disappeared from their cells and then found the tunnel through which seem to escape.
The Taliban said took five months to finalize the flight, with the tunnel diggers began in a nearby house as arranged for the prisoners got the keys to the cells so they could open the night of the flight. The office of provincial governor of Kandahar said that Afghan and international forces to work together to find missing offenders for re-arrest.
He said soldiers and captured 65 and killed two who tried to resist. The authorities have biometric data of each prisoner to assist in identification, the statement said. But even if it can return to apprehend a number of convicts, it is possible that the provincial government weak and unable to recover from the blow to his image.
Besides the feeling of insecurity, prison escape comes less than two weeks after the Kandahar police chief was killed by a suicide bomber triggered his explosive charge in the official building complex, which is heavily guarded. 
The Taliban said took five months to finalize the flight, with the tunnel diggers began in a nearby house as arranged for the prisoners got the keys to the cells so they could open the night of the flight. The office of provincial governor of Kandahar said that Afghan and international forces to work together to find missing offenders for re-arrest.
He said soldiers and captured 65 and killed two who tried to resist. The authorities have biometric data of each prisoner to assist in identification, the statement said. But even if it can return to apprehend a number of convicts, it is possible that the provincial government weak and unable to recover from the blow to his image.
Besides the feeling of insecurity, prison escape comes less than two weeks after the Kandahar police chief was killed by a suicide bomber triggered his explosive charge in the official building complex, which is heavily guarded.
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