This attack, which the taliban have denied any responsibility, just breaking a relative calm across the country since the beginning of Friday’s Eid al-Adha.
armed men stormed a prison in afghanistan on Sunday evening in Jalalabad (East) after blowing up a vehicle, killing at least one death, according to a provincial chief, who said that the fighting was still going on.
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This attack, in which taliban insurgents have denied any responsibility, just breaking a relative calm across the country, where no conflict had been found since the beginning Friday, a truce of three days decreed by the government and the taliban at the occasion of the celebrations of the muslim Eid al-Adha.
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“This attack is not of our doing. Our mujahideen are not yet allowed to conduct attacks,” assured Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the insurgents. According to Attaullah Khogyani, the spokesman for Nangarhar province, of which Jalalabad is the capital, “the attackers (…) were first detonated a car near the security perimeter of the prison.”
One person dead and 24 injured
A civilian was killed and 24 injured were taken to the provincial hospital, said the spokesman of the institution, Zaher Adel. The attackers, disguised as security forces, entered the prison, explained to a responsible, safe under the cover of anonymity, adding that “twelve prisoners have been arrested by security forces while they were trying to escape”.
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respect, over the past 72 hours, the truce between the taliban and afghan authorities, the third break the official only in the fighting in two decades of conflict, seemed to promise a breakthrough in the elusive peace process recently initiated. The president Ashraf Ghani and the insurgents have suggested that talks between government and taliban could start after the Eid.
