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Police backup arrived late at D.I. Khan jailbreak: Report
PESHAWAR: The initial report of the Dera Ismail Khan jailbreak has been sent to Khyber Pkahtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak.
The report prepared by the advisor for prisons and Inspector General (IG) prisons states that police backup arrived over four hours late and intelligence agencies warned of the attack three days prior. According to the report, weapons of guards at the prison were old.
Earlier, Chief Minister Khattck had called the jailbreak a failure of intelligence agencies and directed concerned authorities to launch a probe into the incident.
As many as 243 prisoners escaped as militants carrying heavy weapons stormed Dera Ismail Khan’s Central Jail. The attack on the hundred-year-old detention facility was blamed on weak security arrangements where inmates belonging to various banned organizations were held.
Nine people including six policemen were killed and 14 others injured in the audacious attack while four prisoners were also killed by security forces.
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