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Bloodbath in Northern Afghanistan Continues
Monday, November 26, 2001
Staff & agencies

Fighting at the scene of a bloody prison uprising in Mazar-i-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, continued today despite official assurances it had been quelled.

Parts of the mud-walled fort were yesterday captured by an estimated 500 foreign Taliban fighters taken prisoner in the battle for Kunduz. They broke down their cell doors and tried to fight their way to freedom with Kalashnikov rifles and hand grenades.

US special forces called in air strikes which killed Pakistani, Chechen and Arab volunteers -- but the explosions and gunfire rang out for a second day today.

Survivors barricaded themselves inside a tower of the mud-walled fortress and fired mortars and rocket-propelled grenades, witnesses said.
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Dan