Tanks surround Kabul riot prison

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.

Gunfire continued to ring out this morning from Policharki jail on the outskirts of the Afghan capital, where officials said al Qaida and Taliban prisoners incited a riot by hundreds of inmates late on Saturday and took control of much of the prison.