Security forces with tanks and heavy guns surrounded Kabul’s main prison today, as Afghan authorities sought to resume negotiations with rioting prisoners, but warned they could use force.

HUNDREDS of inmates, including convicted al-Qaida and Taliban militants, overpowered guards and took control of parts of a high-security prison in Afghanistan’s capital, officials said yesterday.

Terror convicts and hundreds of other inmates clashed with guards and took control of parts of a high-security prison in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, officials said today.