Qaida men tunnel their way out of jail
AP | Dec 13, 2011, 06.01AM IST
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SANAA: Several al-Qaida militants escaped early on Monday from a prison in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, officials said, tunneling their way out in the second such jailbreak in 2011. A prison officer said at least 10 convicts escaped through an up to 40 meter long tunnel, which took the inmates from under the western side of the Aden prison to near a petrol station outside the prison walls.
A security official said 15 militants fled in the prison break, including 12 convicted for the killing of security officials and a bank heist.
The discrepancy in the number of escaped prisoners could not be immediately reconciled.
Yemen is home to al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula , which the US considers the terrorist network's most active and dangerous offshoot.Islamic militants with links to the group have taken advantage of the country's turmoil to seize control of several towns in southern Yemen.
Yemen has seen spectacular jailbreaks before.
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SANAA: Several al-Qaida militants escaped early on Monday from a prison in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, officials said, tunneling their way out in the second such jailbreak in 2011. A prison officer said at least 10 convicts escaped through an up to 40 meter long tunnel, which took the inmates from under the western side of the Aden prison to near a petrol station outside the prison walls.
A security official said 15 militants fled in the prison break, including 12 convicted for the killing of security officials and a bank heist.
The discrepancy in the number of escaped prisoners could not be immediately reconciled.
Yemen is home to al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula , which the US considers the terrorist network's most active and dangerous offshoot.Islamic militants with links to the group have taken advantage of the country's turmoil to seize control of several towns in southern Yemen.
Yemen has seen spectacular jailbreaks before.
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