Kandahar, southern Afghanistan - 470 prisoners escape from Sarposa jail through 320 metre long tunnel

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25/04/2011 - More than 470 prisoners at a prison in southern Afghanistan have escaped through a tunnel hundreds of metres long and dug from outside the jail.
Officials in the city of Kandahar said many of those who escaped from Sarposa jail were Taliban insurgents.
It had taken five months five months to build the 320m tunnel, believed to have been dug from a house rented by the Taliban.
About 100 of those who escaped were Taliban commanders, and most of the others were fighters with the insurgency. The prison holds about 1,200 prisoners.