A disarmament drive by security forces in Libya has resulted in more than a thousand Libyans handing in their weapons.
Libya’s current leader Mohamed Magarief pledged to disarm all illegal militias after the killing of the US ambassador in Benghazi.
Weapons from pistols to tanks were collected at collection points in Tripoli and Benghazi.
"They are handing over weapons to the military so that they are kept in the right place and not on the streets," Yussef al-Mangoush, chief-of-staff of the Libyan army said to Reuters.
Libya’s many militias were instrumental in overthrowing Gaddafi’s regime and remained armed after the interim government came to power.
