At least 500 escape in deadly Iraq prison assaults
Militants stormed two Iraqi prisons including notorious Abu Ghraib with mortar rounds, bombs and gunfire, freeing at least 500 inmates in assaults that cost more than 40 lives, officials said Monday.
(AFP) Militants stormed two Iraqi prisons including notorious Abu Ghraib with mortar rounds, bombs and gunfire, freeing at least 500 inmates in assaults that cost more than 40 lives, officials said Monday.
The coordinated attacks on Taji prison, north of Baghdad, and Abu Ghraib, west of the capital, were launched on Sunday night and triggered fighting which raged for around 10 hours, officials said.
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