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A large fire broke out in the Lebanese capital on Friday when a diesel fuel tank exploded in a warehouse, killing four people and injuring three children with burns. This explosion comes more than two months after the terrible explosion in the port of Beirut. A local television showed images of flames burning in one of the alleys and then the screams of the terrified residents of the area. Police arrested the owner of the diesel tank.
On Friday night, a diesel tank exploded in a warehouse in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, setting a fire in a densely populated area, leaving four people dead, again causing panic after a series of fires and a bloody explosion he witnessed. The port of the capital, Beirut August 4.
YTragedy left behind That happened on Friday night, several injured, also causing suffocation, while three children were also injured by burns, according to a medical source at the hospital that received them.
And in a country that suffers from poor public services and has witnessed an unprecedented economic crisis a year ago, Friday’s incident is one of a series of tragic events Lebanon has been going through for two months.
Beirut Fire Brigade Lt. Ali Najm spoke of a “diesel tank” fire and explosion in the Al-Tariq Al-Jadida area on Friday, emphasizing that the causes are still unknown.
Security forces detained the owner of the diesel tank, a security source confirmed. It runs a private generator that provides electricity to residents during daily power outages across the country, according to the source.
For its part, the Red Cross wrote on Twitter: “The number of victims has risen to 4 and the number of injured as a result of the explosion of a diesel tank” in the area of Tariq Al-Jadida.
The National News Agency quoted the secretary general of the Red Cross, George Kittana, as saying that there were “injured people who were taken to hospitals.”
Local television “Al-Jadid”, which reported more than 20 injured, showed images of flames in one of the alleys, followed by images, during which the screams of frightened residents of the area were heard.
Firefighters evacuated residents from neighboring buildings, while gray smoke still rose, according to scenes broadcast by the channel.
Beirut Governor Marwan Abboud told Al-Jadid that the evacuations are continuing.
He added that the municipality has worked in recent weeks to inspect warehouses that may pose a threat to residential neighborhoods, noting that around a hundred sites have been identified. “We closed one part and imposed measures on the other part to guarantee public safety,” he said. “We were afraid of similar incidents,” added the governor.
For at least three decades, Lebanon has been suffering from a growing problem in the electricity sector, which has ruined factories and long hours of rationing, forcing most citizens to pay two bills, one for the state and one for the public. owners of private electricity generators that compensate for the lack of state supply.
The electricity sector is the worst among mostly dilapidated infrastructure. It has incurred the state treasury more than $ 40 billion since the end of the civil war (1975-1990). The reform of this sector is an important condition demanded by the international community.
This new tragedy comes at a time when an explosion last August 4 in the port of Beirut killed more than 190 people, injured 6,500 and destroyed entire neighborhoods. Two months after the explosion, the Lebanese investigation has been unable to reveal its circumstances and no results have been announced.
France 24 / AFP
