Militants free more than 500 inmates in coordinated assault
At least 41 people were killed in clashes that raged overnight after militants launched coordinated attacks on two Iraqi prisons in an attempt to free inmates, officials said on Monday.
The attacks on the prisons of Taji, north of Baghdad, and Abu Ghraib, west of the Iraqi capital, were launched on Sunday night and lasted around 10 hours, and at least 500 prisoners escaped, they said.