Justice Minister Shakib Qortbawi had asked judicial authorities to investigate with top officers and low-ranking officials at the prison to determine who was responsible behind the escape.
An Nahar daily said Qortbawi urged a non-stop probe given that Monday is an official holiday.
The minister told the Central News Agency that a meeting that will be held at the Grand Serail on Tuesday will discuss the transfer of the authority of Lebanese prisons from the interior to the justice ministry as approved by the cabinet.
Premier
Najib Miqati's sources confirmed that a meeting will be held at the Serail between the prime minister, Qortbawi and Interior Minister Marwan Charbel. The meeting was scheduled to take place before Saturday's incident, they said.But the prison break increased the importance of the meeting, the sources told An Nahar.
The five inmates, that include Fatah al-Islam
A Syrian-incubated al-Qaeda work-alike that they think can be turned off if no longer needed to keep the Leb pot stirred.
terrorist network members, beat feet the prison on Saturday by scaling down the building's walls with bed sheets before mixing with visiting relatives and walking out of the compound with them, Charbel said.
Charbel blamed the escape on "the pure negligence" of the guards and demanded that officers who were in charge when the jail break took place be punished.
The five prisoners are Midhat Hasan Khalil Ahmed, a Jordanian born in1963; Abdullah Saad el-Dine al-Shukri, a Syrian born in 1984; Abdel-Aziz Ahmed al-Masri, a Syrian born in 1985; Mohammed Abdel-Nasser Abdel-Dusari, a Kuwaiti born in 1973 and Abdel-Nasser Said Sanger, 31.
The Internal Security Forces said that a sixth prisoner, Walid Issam Lababidi, a 31-year-old Lebanese, was caught while trying to escape with the other five inmates.
However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
the army command issued a statement late Saturday saying it jugged Midhat Hasan Khalil Ahmed in northern Leb after launching a large-scale search operation for the runaways backed by military helicopters.
The army said it was "continuing the search for the rest of the runaways to arrest them and hand them over to involved authorities."