KARACHI, Oct 13 (AFP): Pakistani officials said Monday they had thwarted an Islamist group's bid to tunnel into Karachi's main prison and stage a jailbreak that could have freed 100 dangerous militants.
The government paramilitary Rangers raided a house where members of a militant group were trying to tunnel into the nearby Karachi Central Jail, Rangers Colonel Tahir Mehmood told a press conference.
Breakouts from Pakistan's ageing, overcrowded prisons are not uncommon. A raid by heavily armed militants on a jail in the northwest last August freed nearly 250 prisoners, while almost 400 fled in a similar incident in another northwestern prison in 2012.
Karachi tunnel jailbreak bid foiled
FE Team | Published: October 14, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2024 06:01:00
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