Taliban militants attack the main prison in southern Afghanistan, exploding a car bomb at the main gate in a multi-pronged assault that freed hundreds of militant prisoners, officials said. The complex attack included a car bomb, suicide bombers who entered the prison and rockets fired from outside it. The attack rattled the southern city of Kandahar with loud booms and set hundreds of Taliban insurgents fleeing into the night. "All the prisoners escaped. There is no one left", said Wali Karzai, the brother of President Hamid Karzai and the president of Kandahar's provincial council. Militants first exploded a water tanker near the entrance to the gate of the Kandahar prison, ...

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