Dozens of prisoners escaped from a Tunisian jail late on Wednesday, the official TAP news agency said on Thursday, in the latest in a series of mass prison breakouts since an uprising ousted the president in January, according to Reuters. Citing a source close to the local authorities in Tunisia's second city of Sfax, TAP said 58 prisoners had escaped and were met by accomplices carrying metal bars and knives. Tunisian security officials have said in the past they believe the prison breaks to be the work of loyalists of ousted president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, trying to sow chaos and undermine the still-fragile transition to democracy.
