Taliban prisoners recount great escape
Taliban fighters who escaped from an Afghan prison alongside hundreds of comrades have described how they crawled to freedom along a stifling tunnel lined with lights and an air pipe.
One said he spent half an hour scrambling through the kilometre-long tunnel from Kandahar prison in southern Afghanistan to a nearby safe house, before being arrested by police suspicious of his dirty clothes and bare feet.
Another Taliban militant told of how cells in the supposedly high-security prison were routinely left unlocked, allowing easy access to the man-made tunnel, which the Taliban say they took five months to dig.
The men, recaptured along with more than 60 others, recounted their stories as they were brought before reporters at a press conference organised by Afghanistan’s intelligence service on Tuesday.
COMMENT: I don’t know or trust the source, but if it’s true, it’s interesting!