Grenade-wielding Taliban militants fighting the Pakistani security forces in a complex midnight hold hundreds of Taliban and other militants attacked the main prison, police said on Monday.
Fighting continued until Tuesday morning, and the security forces said they had imposed a curfew on the city, Dera Ismail Khan, 200 in Lahore.
Pakistani Taliban sent 100 fighters and seven suicide bombers on a mission to release some of their top leaders, the Taliban spokesman said Shahidullah Shahid.
He said they released about 300 prisoners, this statement can not be immediately verified. He said that some of the suicide bombers blew up in the prison walls and some of the reserves.
5,000 prison inmates around the house. Around 250 Pakistani Taliban and Lashkar-e - Jhangvi, a Sunni militant groups have killed hundreds of civilians this year banned Shiite sectarian group members.
Up to 40 gunmen wearing police uniforms launched their attack, blow up the prison for electricity lines and heavy explosions detonated violation facades, chief Khaled Abbas, said provincial prisons.
"It was completely dark, we do not know what happened, but there is fighting there," he said. "
Militants used rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns, to fight their way inside, district police chief Sohail Khalid said.
Mushtaq, the town's civil commissioner, Jadoon said that dozens of prisoners escaped. "The Taliban have speakers and they ask their friend's name," he said. "
Gunmen also took over a house near the hospital, residents held hostage because they ambushed reinforcements from the roof and laid-off police shot.
Police Gul Mohammed, said he rushed to the scene when he was two little boys, holding a rifle challenges.
"They told me to stop, I told them I was a policeman, and that is when they opened fire," he said, adding that he was shot three times.
Police said gunmen in the streets leading to the prison, there are other small groups.
Because of ongoing fighting, casualties unclear. Police said they had requested military reinforcements.
The attack warning
Provincial authorities warned of impending attack, two weeks ago, in the provincial capital Peshawar, a security official said.
He said the militants planned jailbreak telephone interception and interrogation of captured fighters confirmed. Security officials alerted the governor of interception-based threats.
The attack on the Pakistani security forces raised is how well-prepared a series of high-profile attacks issue.
Last week, militants stormed the headquarters of Pakistan's military intelligence service in the southern town of Sukkur. Last weekend, about 40 people were killed, mostly Shiite area in the town of Parachinar double bombing.
Pakistani militants launched a successful raid on the prison several times before. Last year, nearly 400 prisoners were released, the Taliban attacked the northern town of Bannu prison.
After that attack, militants told Reuters reporters, they help people in the industry security services. Inquiry found that there is much less than it should have guards on duty and those who lack sufficient ammunition.
The day before the attack, Pakistan's legislators is due to choose a president and two days before a major Shiite festival, security officials warned could be attacked.
Tuesday's election, the position is largely ceremonial leader of a close ally of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's party swept the national elections in May and has promised to seek negotiations with the militant groups.
A Reuters analysis found a sharp increase in militant violence since Sharif took office.
 



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