By Ashraf Abdul Wahab.
Tripoli, 15 February 2014:
Some 90 inmates are on the run after escaping from Mager Prison in southern Zliten.
The . . .[restrict]authorities are now trying to round up the convicts, a local resident told the Libya Herald. He said many people in the area suspected prison guards of colluding in the mass breakout.
This is the latest in a growing list of jailbreaks over the last 12 months, which have seen at least 1,700 prisoners let loose with a low rate of recapture.
Just over two weeks ago, 55 prisoners escaped from the Bawabat Al-Jibs prison in Tripoli, when they managed to overpower prison guards. There were two jailbreaks in Ajdabiya and four in Sebha last year and, in July, 1,200 inmates escaped from Benghazi’s Kuwaifiya Prison during a riot. [/restrict]
