Kandahar, June 16 : Nearly 400 Taliban militants, who escaped from the Sarpoza Provincial Prison in Kandahar following Friday night’s brazen prison-break, are learnt to have arrived in their homes in nearby rural areas and even in Pakistani villages situated along the Indo-Afghan border, said a senior Taliban commander.
Canadian troops patrol these restive rural areas in Afghanistan, lying near Kandahar.
The Taliban commander said that most of the Taliban prisoners were first taken to villages in the turbulent Panjwai district, given money, and from where they scattered in different directions, including nearby Helmand province, Kabul and Pakistan.
“Many of them have gone to their homes,” the globeandmail. com quoted him as saying.
