Authorities say an Islamic State group attack on a prison in eastern Afghanistan holding hundreds of its members is raging on after killing at least 21 people in fighting overnight
An Islamic State group attack on a prison in eastern Afghanistan raged on Monday after killing at least 21 people in fighting overnight, a local official said.
Some of the dead were prisoners, said Khogyani, as well as civilians, prison guards and Afghan security personnel.The prison assault struck Jalalabad, Nangarhar’s provincial capital, some 70 miles east of the capital, Kabul. The prison houses about 1,500 inmates, of which several hundred are believed to belong to the Islamic State group affiliate in Afghanistan.The attack comes a day after the Afghan intelligence agency said a senior Islamic State group commander was killed by Afghan special forces near Jalalabad.
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