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Punjab jailbreak: 10 armed men break into Nabha jail; free Khalistan Liberation Force chief

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Ten armed men broke into Nabha jail in Punjab's Patiala on Sunday, taking along Khalistan Liberation Force chief Harminder Singh Mintoo and four others.

ANI reports that the men were wearing police uniform and fired over 100 rounds.  The four other gangsters who were freed are Gurpreet Singh,Vicky Gondra,Nitin Deol and Vikramjeet Singh Vicky.

The police is now at the spot and a probe is underway. The Punjab Director General of Police met with state's Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal in Amritsar. 

Times Now reports that a high alert has been sounded at the border. Pickets have been put up on a 50 km radius.

An eyewitness told ANI that there were at least 20 men -- one dressed in ASI uniform, others dressed in police uniforms-- they opened indiscriminate fire.

The dreaded insurgent Mintoo, was arrested by Punjab police from Delhi's IGI airport on November 2014 when he was on his way back from Thailand. The 47-year-old is wanted in 10 terror-related cases, including the 2008 attack on Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and 2010 recovery of explosives at Halwara Air Force station. 

Mintoo took over the KLF in 2009 after he had defected from Wadhawa Singh-led Babbar Khalsa International (BKI). He is wanted for plotting killings of three Punjab Shiv Sena leaders. He also planted Improvised Explosive Devices at Halwara Air Force station near Ludhiana in 2010 

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