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Flames rose from a fuel depot that had exploded near the eastern border with Syria.
A fuel depot exploded on the border with Syria in the northeast of the country in the early morning of yesterday, which is the second explosion of its kind since the beginning of this year, which reopens the file of smuggling of materials supported by the «Banque du Liban »Towards Syria, according to the daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat.
An explosion echoed off a gas tank in the Fisan border area, near the town of Al-Qasr, near a gas station. However, it should be noted that the large capacity of the fuel tank, which amounts to 10,000 liters, indicates that it was originally intended to smuggle fuel from Lebanese territory to Syrian territory.
Field sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that the smuggling tanks were made primarily to store and smuggle fuel and were placed in open country areas.
These tanks were made primarily to store diesel, but Syria’s need for gasoline led smugglers to change their use. The sources suggested that the explosion was caused by friction due to the operations of aspiration and extraction of gasoline by pumps by the manual method, mainly because they are constantly exposed to cold at night and heat during the day.
Yesterday’s tank explosion is not the first explosion in the smuggling zones. Another explosion, larger than that of two weeks ago, occurred in tanks of diesel, gas and gasoline bottles, and caused a large explosion, and the flames rose dozens of meters long, and the explosions continued until the next morning by the lighting of jars. Gas inside the warehouse.
While the first explosion occurred 8 meters from the border and burned a smuggling depot near Saqiyat al-Jousiyah on the Syrian side, the explosion occurred yesterday, about 500 meters from the Syrian border, within Lebanese territory.
These explosions reopened the smuggling file, and a field source in the Bekaa told Asharq Al-Awsat that the gas bottles that were lost in the border areas of Hermel (northeast Lebanon) are sold at double the price by smugglers. inside Syrian territory, and a canister of gasoline is sold from Lebanese territory Inside Syria, on the Homs line, at more than fifty thousand Lebanese pounds (12 dollars at the market exchange rate), while its price is the half of that value within Lebanon.
Motorcycle gallon smuggling has been active recently, after the Lebanese military forces closed the borders to illegally smuggled trucks and crossings. Each motorcycle can carry about 200 liters of fuel during its journey from the interior of Lebanon to the interior of Syria, and to easily pass the water wheel, a wooden board can be placed over the water wheel so it can cross.
The fight against smuggling continues to be the subject of constant demands from the political forces in Lebanon, led by the Progressive Socialist Party and the Lebanese Forces, calling on the Lebanese security forces to permanently close the borders and persecute the smugglers.
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