BANNU: One of Bannu jailbreak escapees, who later changed his mind and returned back to the prison, said that at least 400-500 heavily armed attackers had stormed the jail to set the prisoners free, Geo News reported.
Giving an eyewitness account to Geo News, he said there were at least fifty fast-moving four-wheel-drive vehicles packed with the long-haired insurgents who spoke in Urdu and weilded state-of-the-art weaponry.
“Bearded bandits barged into the jail shooting/bombing and told us to flee amid fire and thunder of the guns, panicked, we did follow them out of the prison for some distance, but then decided to turn back fearing police may not open fire at us form behind”, said the backtracking escapee.
To a question, he said that he changed his mind because his term was almost over and the jailbreak would have been of no consequence for him except more trouble.