Indicating a clear strategic trend, hundreds of prisoners ran free following a prison break from a Pakistan jail late Monday night.
According to reports, one large bomb detonated outside Central Prison in the town of Dera Ismail Khan at roughly 11:30 PM, blowing a hole in the jail’s walls. Then, as the Guardian reports, “around 70 gunmen, many dressed in police uniforms, then rushed through the gaps, throwing grenades and firing rocket-propelled grenades, killing six policemen and opening cells to free around 250 prisoners.”
Reportedly the escapees include 24 “wanted terrorists.”
The jail break follows on the heels of two similar episodes.
On Saturday, over 1000 prisoners escaped from a prison in Benghazi, Libya—though conflicting reports attribute the escape to either an attack from the outside or violence among military police spiraling into a fire and riot within.
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