BAGHDAD — At least 22 “terrorism” suspects escaped a Baghdad detention facility on Friday after killing two guards, though most were later recaptured, security officials said. The escapes were the latest in a long line of jailbreaks in Iraq, including coordinated assaults claimed by an Al-Qaeda-linked group on two prisons in July, in which more than 500 inmates broke out and dozens of people were killed. Accounts varied of the number of detainees who escaped from the facility in the north Baghdad area of Kadhimiyah on Friday.

A police colonel said detainees had seized weapons from guards early on Friday, killing two, after which 26 people arrested for “issues related to terrorism” escaped. Security forces killed one detainee and captured 14, the colonel said, and a medical official confirmed two guards and a detainee had been killed. – AFP