Via Daily Mail:
More than 1,000 prisoners have escaped from a Libyan jail this afternoon, it has emerged.
Libyan security officials said the mass jailbreak occurred at Koyfiya prison, near the eastern city of Benghazi.
The jailbreak happened as protesters stormed the offices of Islamist-allied parties in Libya’s main cities.
Protesters had massed across the country angry over the killing of an activist critical of the country’s Muslim Brotherhood group.
It is not known if the jailbreak was part of the protests or if inmates received outside help.
A security official from the prison said most of the inmates were being held on serious charges