Pakistan Prison Escape: 300 Inmates Flee After Militants Attack

Pakistan Prison Break: 300 Inmates Flee After Militants Attack

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan, April 15 (Reuters) - Around 300 prisoners escaped from a jail in northwest Pakistan early on Sunday after it was attacked by Islamist militants armed with guns and rocket propelled grenades, a senior police official told Reuters.

Some of those who escaped were militants, an intelligence official said. (Reporting by Saud Mehsud; writing by Michael Georgy)

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