Anti-government militants raided a prison in Laghman province of east Afghanistan, local newspaper reported on Monday.
"Armed Taliban fighters on Saturday night attacked the jail in provincial capital Meterlam but caused no loss of life and damage," daily Arman-e-Millie reported.
This was the second attack of the prison in Laghman over the past one month which according to Taliban purported spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid had inflicted casualties on jail officials, Xinhua reported.
In the previous attack on the same jail, one Taliban detainee was killed and another made his good escape.
In the other incident on the same day, Taliban fighters also gunned down a jail official in Helmand province south of Afghanistan.