BEIRUT, Apr 13 (NNN-NNA) – At least one person was killed and seven others were wounded, in an explosion in southern Lebanon early yesterday.
The explosion rocked a scout centre, affiliated with the Shi’ite Amal Movement, in the town of Benafoul, destroying a municipal council building and damaging other buildings nearby.
Preliminary information revealed that, the explosion was caused by oxygen tanks that caught fire, due to electric friction. The oxygen tanks were stored in the scout centre for coronavirus patients.
The injured had been transferred to hospitals, and the Lebanese Civil Defence continued searching among the rubble for further casualties.– NNN-NNA
