Inmates stage mass escape in western Libya amid armed clashes
Libyan police said inmates staged a mass escape from a jail on Tuesday while armed clashes erupted nearby in two cities west of the capital Tripoli.
The Tripoli-based Judicial Police Authority said in a statement that the mass escape happened at Surman jail and that it had launched an investigation into the incident.” Salem Bahr, a local leader in the town of Zawiya, appealed via Turkey-based Libya Al-Ahrar TV channel for an end to the fighting because “everyone who wins in this situation loses.
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