Fighting was raging one day after gunmen stormed the prison in the eastern city of Jalalabad. Prison AfghanPrison Jalalabad
Nangarhar provincial hospital spokesman Zaher Adel told AFP that 20 people had been killed so far — including security personnel — while the governor’s spokesman put the toll at 21.
The toll was expected to rise, Adel warned, as many of the more than 40 wounded people were in serious condition. The raid shattered the relative calm of a ceasefire between the Taliban and Afghan government forces that started Friday to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.The IS news outlet, Amaq, announced that its fighters were behind the prison raid, according to the SITE Intelligence Group.
About 700 prisoners who escaped during the raid have been re-arrested, the Nangarhar governor’s spokesman Attaullah Khogyani told AFP.Several armoured vehicles and scores of security personnel were deployed in the area, and gunfire and explosions could be heard. At the time of Sunday’s attack, more than 1,700 prisoners were in the prison, most of them fighters of IS and the Taliban, a security source told AFP.
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