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Hundreds escape prison near Libya's Tripoli: police
« on: September 03, 2018, 12:55:26 am »
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Hundreds escape prison near Libya's Tripoli: police
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AFP•September 2, 2018

Tripoli (AFP) - Some 400 detainees escaped after a riot on Sunday at a prison in the southern suburbs of the Libyan capital Tripoli, theatre of a week of deadly battles, police said.

"The detainees were able to force open the doors and leave" as fighting between rival militias raged near the prison of Ain Zara, police said in a statement, without specifying what crimes the escapees had committed.

Guards were unable to prevent the prisoners escaping as they feared for their own lives, the statement said.

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