About 500 prisoners serving time in prison in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, escaped. During the morning inspection found that escaped from the prison 483 people. "Of about 115 people escaped - Taliban convicted of acts of terrorism and armed attacks." Escape into the wild, they could, making a tunnel under one of the walls of the prison, after which the fugitives entered the underground irrigation communication - kyarizes erected during the time of Alexander the Great. The total length of the prisoners dug underground passage to the karez amounted to almost 400 meters.