Hundreds of Sri Lankans are still waiting to be evacuated from Libya

"We are waiting for the Sri Lankan authorities to take speedy action," the engineer speaking from the Libyan capital, Tripoli told BBC Sinhala service.

He said that the company he is working with has 207 Sri Lankans.

Another Sri Lankan speaking to BBC Sandeshaya from the eastern town of Benghazi said that the area is now under anti-Gaddafi forces.

"Young boys are roaming the streets with guns in their hands," he said.

Swords and daggers

Meanwhile, a Sri Lankan among the first to arrive in Colombo from Libya says that Libyan military, together with thugs, are attacking civilians in Tripoli.

Isaac Newton Fernando has arrived in Colombo on Sunday.

There was nobody to help us to help us with our foods or any other necessity. We were at the airport for two days, but there was no Sri Lankan flag to be seen Isaac Newton Fernando, who has just returned from Tripoli

"They attack the civilians with swords and daggers; chop and kill them," he told BBC Sandeshaya.

The foreigners feared to go out even to reach their embassies as the situation was so dangerous, according to Mr Fernando, who worked for a hotel chain in Libya.

"Once we went out and they asked where we were from. When we said from Sri Lanka, we were asked why we came to Libya. And then they tight our hands and were beaten."

"And I heard that many Egyptians were killed by the military."

At Least 50 Sri Lankan have already arrived in the country, officials say.

'Nobody to help'

21 though arrived via Greece and 20 others via Jordan, said LK Ruhunage of Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau.

Mr Fernando said his employer provided air tickets and took them to the airport to flee Libya.

	Young boys are roaming the streets with guns in their hands

"But when arrived at the airport, there were hundreds of thousands of people at the airport. And we were chased away. We had to leave all our belongings and to return to the hotel."

Finally, they have left Tripoli for Jordan by a charter flight provided by the Jordanian government.

There were no Sri Lankan officials at the Tripoli airport to support them though officials from many other countries with their national flags, he said.

"There was nobody to help us to help us with our foods or any other necessity. We were at the airport for two days, but there was no Sri Lankan flag to be seen."

Mr Fernando said they travelled to Doha, Qatar from Jordan before arriving in Sri Lanka.