India: 11 killed as rebels free 300 inmates
Suspected Maoist rebels freed more than 300 prisoners in an dramatic overnight raid on an Indian jail that left 11 people dead and triggered a protest today by the inmates’ relatives who were beaten back by club-wielding police.
About 500 rebels, many of them dressed in police uniforms and armed with guns, petrol bombs and explosives, stormed the jail in Jehanabad town in Bihar state last night, killing a guard and two prisoners, said Ashish Ranjan Sinha, Bihar’s police chief.
