Security beefed up at prisons across Balochistan

Regional TerrorismSecurity beefed up at prisons across Balochistan

QUETTA: Security has been beefed up at prisons across Balochistan province following a brazen militant attack on a jail in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan town, which led to the escape of nearly 250 prisoners.

Security sources said Frontier Constabulary commandoes have been deployed inside and outside the jails on orders of provincial Interior Minister.

They said the ministry has also sought record of 145 dangerous prisoners confined in 11 jails of Balochistan.

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