Protesters have broken into Libya's parliament in Tobruk and set a fire in front of the building to express their anger towards Libya's warring political parties, witnesses say.
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Security forces protecting the parliament withdrew from the site, the witnesses added.
Demonstrations took place on Friday in Tobruk, Benghazi and some smaller towns over a failure of government.
Libya has been in chaos since the 2011 NATO-backed uprising that ousted Muammar Gaddafi.
In 2014, it split between warring eastern and western factions before a peace process beginning in 2020 tried to knit the country back together.
However, after a scheduled election was halted in December, the eastern-based parliament said the interim unity government of Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah had expired and it appointed Fathi Bashagha to replace him.
Australian Associated Press
