More than 230 prisoners escape after Taliban attack on Pakistan prison
At least 12 people killed and seven others wounded in jailbreak
Taliban insurgents released hundreds of prisoners, including hardline militants, in a brazen assault on the central jail in northwest Pakistan that was bombarded with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.
At least 13 people - six police, four prisoners, two attackers and one civilian - were killed in the overnight assault, which triggered a three-hour gun battle between security forces and militants disguised in police uniforms.
"A total of 243 prisoners have escaped, six of them were later arrested by police," he said, adding that "30 among the escaped prisoners were hardcore militants".
The attack targeted the Central Prison in Dera Ismail Khan, a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, close to the lawless tribal regions bordering Afghanistan where Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked insurgents are active.
Militants were firing rockets at the jail and I also heard gunfire from inside the building
Jadoon said militants had planted dozens of explosive devices in the jail and 14 of them had so far been defused.