At least eight prisoners have reportedly escaped from a detention center in Afghanistan's northwestern province of Herat. The jailbreak took place in Kohsan district, located 730 kilometers (454 miles) west of the capital Kabul late Friday, a Press TV correspondent reported late Saturday. Prison officials announced that guards were giving prisoners' meals when a group of inmates attacked them. A police official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that a prison warden sustained injuries in the incident, adding that Taliban militants were not among the escapees. Afghan security forces have so far managed to re-arrest two fugitives, while six prisoners are still at large. Last Tuesday, 541 Taliban prisoners fled the heavily-fortified jail in the Afghan city of Kandahar, 389 kilometer (241 miles) south of the capital Kabul. The prisoners had dug a 360-meter-long tunnel under the prison's ground, which took over six months to complete, said Taliban spokesman Qari Yusuf Ahmadi. Taliban claimed that the move was pre-planned and Taliban vehicles had been waiting for the prisoners at the end of the tunnel, somewhere outside the prison. Afghan security forces could recapture 65 inmates just one day after the prisoners escaped. On Friday, Kandahar central prison chief and seven other officials were arrested on charges of complicity.