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Around fifty killed in Lebanon fuel tanker explosion
Black smoke rises from the scene where a fuel tanker exploded, in Tleil village, north Lebanon, Sunday, August 15, 2021
ABOUT 50 people were reportedly killed and hundreds injured when a fuel tanker exploded in northern Lebanon in the early hours of today.
Among the dead were army and security personnel who had seized the the oil container, which the military said had been hidden by black marketeers.
They were handing out fuel to residents of al-Tleil, a village in the Akkar region, one of Lebanon’s poorest provinces, when the explosion took place.
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