The crisis has also further degraded Lebanon's already-dismal jails, with poor conditions and lack of medical care regularly sparking prion riots and unrest. Inflation has skyrocketed and public sector salaries have plummeted to record lows, forcing soldiers and other members of security forces to quit en masse to try to eke out an alternative living. The prison break came as Lebanon grapples with an unprecedented economic crisis that has seen the value of the Lebanese pound lose more than 90 percent of its value against the dollar on the black market. It was notorious for abuses committed against detained Syrian refugees and foreign migrant domestic workers, according to rights groups, including Human Rights Watch. The Adlieh detention centre was formerly controlled by Lebanon's General Security agency but is now manged by the country's prison authority. On Sunday morning, an AFP correspondent saw security forces and army personnel deployed in the Beirut neighbourhood housing the jail. A security source confirmed the escape method, saying the prisoners were likely aided by someone on the outside. "The escapees include Lebanese, Syrians and Palestinians, among other foreigners," he told AFP on condition of anonymity.
They were identified by authorities as members. In 1995, three Palestinians broke out from the Kfar Yona facility, and in 2014 Shata prison, near Gilboa, discovered an escape attempt similar to Monday’s through tunnels. "Immediate orders were given to arrest them and investigations are underway." The detainees broke past a prison window using a saw smuggled into the facility, said a judicial official close to an investigation into the incident. (Reuters/Gil Eliyahu) YERUSHALAYIM A massive manhunt was underway Monday morning after six Palestinians escaped from a high-security Israeli prison. 31 detainees managed to escape" from a detention centre in the Adlieh neighbourhood of the capital Beirut, the Internal Security Forces said in a statement on Sunday.
BEIRUT: More than 30 people fled a Lebanon detention centre at dawn on Sunday, security forces said, after sawing their way through a window, according to a judicial official.
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