300 Prisoners Escape

In a big blow to the Pakistani security agencies, more than 300 prisoners escaped from a jail in northwest Pakistan early today after it was attacked by militants.

Trapped inmates screamed from their cells as a fire swept through a Honduran prison, killing at least 300 inmates in one of the world's deadliest fires in decades, authorities said on Wednesday. Some 475 people escaped from the prison in the town of Comayagua and 356 are missing and presumed dead, said Hector Ivan Mejia, a spokesman for the Hondura...

In a big blow to the Pakistani security agencies, more than 300 prisoners escaped from a jail in northwest Pakistan early today after it was attacked by militants.

Trapped inmates screamed from their cells as a fire swept through a Honduran prison, killing at least 300 inmates in one of the world's deadliest fires in decades, authorities said on Wednesday. Some 475 people escaped from the prison in the town of Comayagua and 356 are missing and presumed dead, said Hector Ivan Mejia, a spokesman for the Hondura...