KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - Nearly 500 Taliban prisoners have escaped from Kandahar prison in southern Afghanistan through a tunnel hundreds of metres long.
The acting police chief of Kandahar, Shair Shah Yousufzai, confirmed the escape, saying: "Last night some political prisoners broke out of the prison and have escaped."
"A tunnel hundreds of metres long was dug from the south of the prison into the prison and 476 political prisoners escaped last night," said prison director General Ghulam Dastageer Mayar.
The Taliban said it was behind the huge jail break and that all of those who escaped were members of the militant Islamist organisation.
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