At least 20 people were killed and nearly 80 others wounded when a fuel tanker exploded in Lebanon's northern region of Akkar, the Red Cross and state media said.
Beirut - At least 20 people were killed and nearly 80 others wounded when a fuel tanker exploded in Lebanon's northern region of Akkar, the Red Cross and state media said on Sunday.
It said the explosion took place following scuffles between"residents that gathered around the container to fill up gasoline" overnight.Yassine Metlej, an employee at an Akkar hospital, said that the facility had received at least seven corpses and dozens of burn victims."Some have lost their faces, others their arms."
Others found care more than 25 kilometres away at the Al-Salam hospital in the northern city of Tripoli, the only facility in the region able to handle burn patients. Fuel shortages have left many with just two hours of electricity a day, while several hospitals have recently warned they may have to close due to power outages.The Akkar explosion comes less than two weeks after Lebanon marked the first anniversary of a blast at the Beirut port last summer that killed more than 200 people.
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