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A total of 10 people were injured in the explosion in Al-Qasr, Georges Kettaneh, the secretary-general of the Lebanese Red Cross, tells L’Orient Today. Seven people, including the person who had been missing, were taken to the hospital, while the others were treated on site

3 January 2021

At least seven people have been injured in the explosion and one person is missing, the Lebanese Red Cross said on Twitter. The injured are being treated on the scene or taken to the hospital for treatment if necessary

3 January 2021

Civil Defense firefighters have arrived at the scene of the explosion in Al-Qasr and are attempting to put out the ongoing fire, the agency’s head of operations Georges Abou Moussa told L’Orient Today. Gas tanks exploded after a fire broke out in the warehouse, he added

3 January 2021

Multiple people have been injured in an explosion at a warehouse storing gas tanks in the Hermel border town of Al-Qasr, our sister publication L'Orient-Le Jour reports

3 January 2021

The Internal Security Forces has published a list of the names of 34 people it has so far arrested for shooting into the air on New Year’s Eve

3 January 2021

Lebanon has registered 2,870 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. Ten more people have died from the virus, bringing the death toll to 1,486

3 January 2021

Scores of people have gathered in front of the Sultan Abdel-Hamid clock tower in central Tripoli to protest deteriorating living conditions. They are set to tour the city in a march that will see them demonstrate outside the homes of local politicians

3 January 2021

Iranian retaliation against the US for last year’s assassination of Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Iranian military’s elite Quds Force, is “inevitable” and will take place in a matter of days, an Iranian official has told our sister publication L’Orient-Le Jour

3 January 2021

Caretaker Telecoms Minister Talal Hawat has tested positive for COVID-19, he announced on Twitter. He said he will now go into self-isolation and conduct his ministerial duties remotely

3 January 2021

The Internal Security Forces says it has arrested three people for shooting weapons in the air on New Year's Eve. Celebratory gunfire, which remains a common practice in Lebanon, led to the death of a Syrian woman in Baalbeck on New Year's Day

3 January 2021