Efforts are under way to capture the prisoners who escaped in last week’s Taliban-orchestrated jailbreak in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s southern district of Bannu, Provincial Home Secretary Azam Khan said.
In an interview on Sunday, Khan said that out of the 384 prisoners who had fled, 108 have voluntarily returned while 35 others had been captured. He further said that four teams had been constituted to ensure the capture of all the escaped detainees, adding that the authorities in Bannu had contacted the law enforcement agencies and authorities of various districts and tribal areas via the provincial government in this regard.
In what is described as the biggest jailbreak in the country’s history, over 100 militants stormed the central prison in Banu on April 16 and freed 384 prisoners, among them a man sentenced to death for trying to assassinate former president Pervez Musharraf.