Summary:
"Libya is in a state of chaos, with more than 1,200 prisoners escaping from a prison, and the security apparatus in the city is in a state of destitution,"" the BBC's Ahmed Abdelhadi reports.

Full article:
Libyan authorities are trying to round up 1,200 inmates who spilled out of a Benghazi prison. The prisoners escaped the al-Kwyfah facility in Benghazi early Friday, but only 18 have been captured, city security spokesman Mohammed Hujazi told Libya News TV on Saturday. A few others have surrendered, Hujazi said. Residents living next to the prison stormed the facility because they didn't want a prison in their neighborhood, said Ali Zaidan, prime minister of Libya's transitional government. Authorities rushed to the scene, but were instructed "not to draw arms against citizens," Zaidan said. So the al-Kwyfah residents were able to open the floodgates for the prisoners. Zaidan said the country's border posts have lists of the escaped prisoners. He also ordered the closure of Libya's border with Egypt, to the east. "Nobody will be allowed to cross, but we will allow the goods only to enter in the month of Ramadan," Zaidan said. Hujazi, the city's security spokesman, said the security apparatus in Benghazi "suffers from the lack of manpower and equipment."