This archive report was first published on 3 August 2020.
On Sunday, armed men stormed a prison in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan, sparking a fierce battle with security forces.
According to officials, at least 20 people have been killed in the fighting, including security personnel, with the toll expected to rise as many of the over 40 wounded people are in serious condition.
The raid shattered the relative calm of a ceasefire between the Taliban and Afghan government forces that started on Friday to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
The Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility for the attack, with its news outlet, Amaq, announcing that its fighters were behind the prison raid, according to the SITE Intelligence Group.
Despite the chaos, authorities have managed to re-arrest about 700 prisoners who escaped during the raid, according to the Nangarhar governor's spokesman Attaullah Khogyani.
Several armoured vehicles and scores of security personnel were deployed in the area, with gunfire and explosions still being heard on Monday.
At the time of the attack, over 1,700 prisoners were in the prison, most of them fighters of IS and the Taliban, a security source told AFP.
