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April 15th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Some 200 armed militants equipped with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades stormed a central jail in the suburbs of the northwestern town of Bannu early Sunday, wounding dozens of police guards and prisoners, police officials told Press TV.
Prison guards and police forces exchanged fire for several hours. However, the militants manged to escape the scene after heavy contingent of paramilitary troops and army commandos arrived for police assistance.
Dozens of heavily-armed militants attacked Bannu’s central jail around 1:00 am (2000 GMT Saturday) and forced their way into the prison, a security official said.
“Some 384 prisoners, including some hardcore militants, have escaped during the attack,” an official said on condition of anonymity.
“Preliminary information suggests that there were some 944 prisoners in the jail according to the tally late Saturday,” he said
“At least 20 of them were “very dangerous Taliban militants,” including one, Adnan Rashid, who was allegedly involved in an assassination attempt against former President Pervez Musharraf.
Meanwhile, Tahreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant group claimed responsibility for the attack. “We attacked the Bannu prison and got our special members freed,” TTP spokesman, Ehsanullah Ehsan said.
Information minister for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Mian Iftikhar Hussain, said an investigation into the attack will be carried out.
“We will investigate why militants were able to carry out such an attack successfully and what the security was doing,” he said.
Over the past several years, Pakistani Taliban have targeted the government officials and citizens on a daily basis and the Pakistani military forces have combated the militant group, trying to curb the Taliban’s operations in the northwest where they are strongly stationed.
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