Across the World: Iraq

Militants escape jail

Three senior Islamist militants escaped from their cells in clashes overnight at a police station in Iraq's western city of Ramadi, which killed at least seven police and seven militants, officials said.

Prisoners being held at the al-Fursan facility overpowered a policeman who entered a cell early on Friday, stealing the man's weapon and killing him, said Major-General Tareq Yusuf, police commander for Anbar province.