Thousands flee violence in Libya - in pictures

Back home: Egyptians carry their possessions out of Libya through the Salloum land port gate Photograph: Hussein Malla/AP Tunisians in Libya head for the Rad Jdir border post and the Tunisian city of Ben Guerdane Photograph: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images A Tunisian woman and her family enter Tunisia by car at the Rad Jdir border crossing Photograph: Yannis Behrakis/Reuters Tunisians at the Rad Jdir border post Photograph: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images Libyans wave a flag from the pre-Gaddafi era as they take part in an anti-government gathering in Tobruk Photograph: EPA Libyan medical volunteers walk past the main court building in Benghazi. Arabic graffiti read:'The end of lost years' and 'Your time ended' Photograph: Alaguri/AP Protesters carrying guns show a mortar shell that troops loyal to one of Gaddafi's sons used to destroy a munitions store in Tobruk Photograph: Asmaa Waguih/Reuters A protester in Tobruk holds a cartoon of Gaddafi Photograph: Asmaa Waguih/Reuters Women fresh from Libya speak to a border guard on the Tunisian side of the border, in Jdir Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Passengers evacuated from Tripoli arrive at Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle airport, north of Paris Photograph: Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images A Tunisian volunteer welcomes returning compatriots at the Rad Jdir border post Photograph: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images A Bulgarian child evacuated from Libya arrives with his parents at Sofia airport Photograph: Valentina Petrova/AP Displaced people on the Tunisian side of the border Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images A Dutch military aircraft used to evacuate Dutch and other nationals arrives at Eindhoven airbase in the Netherlands Photograph: Marco De Swart/EPA People wait to board a Turkish ferry at Benghazi port Photograph: Berk Ozkan/Anatolian/Reuters Tunisians leaving Libya at the Ras Jdir border post Photograph: Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images Libyan army soldiers and protesters shout anti-Gaddafi slogans in Tobruk Photograph: Hussein Malla/AP A Tunisian woman at Rad Jdir Photograph: Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images