At least 400 prisoners on Sunday reportedly escaped from a jail in Tripoli, Libya‘s capital while fighting between rival armed groups raged  in a nearby town.

 Fierce clashes erupted last week between the Seventh Brigade, or Kaniyat, from Tarhouna, a town 65 km southeast of Tripoli and the Tripoli Revolutionaries’ Brigades (TRB) or the Nawasi, two of the capital’s largest armed groups.

According to a Judiciary Police statement which was posted on social media, the inmates forced open the doors of the Ain Zara Prison, and that guards stationed at the facility were unable to stop them.

In a separate but related development, a missile fell on Sunday on the al-Fallah camp for displaced Tawergha people, killing two and wounding seven, including two children.

According to Emad Ergeha, an activist following Tawergha issues, another rocket also hit the Waddan Hotel in central Tripoli near the Italian Embassy on Saturday, injuring three persons.

Ergeha, who is a Tawergha, also posted online a video of firefighters extinguishing a blaze and showing severe damage to steel-made containers in the camp.

The Tawergha were forced to leave their settlement near the western city of Misrata in the NATO-backed uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 and have been prevented from going back ever since.