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| Fires burn large wooded
areas southeast of Beirut BEIRUT -- Fires raged in a mountainous region southeast of Beirut ravaged up to five million square meters of wooded areas, the chief of the local civil defense said. Colonel Darweesh Hobeika, the director general of the Lebanese General Civil Defense, said in remarks to KUNA on Wednesday that the civil defense teams, aided by personnel of the interior security forces, succeeded in putting out the blazes including these that had erupted in rugged locations. Seasonal rain showers helped in extinguishing the fires that had burned many trees and cultivated plants in the mountainous region of Iklim Al-Kharoub, located southeast of the capital. Two members of the defense teams were injured while trying to put out the blazes, he added. Recurring fires in the country since start of the summer have burned plantations and properties in more than 4,000 hectares of land. Lebanon counts on panoramatic sceneries as one of the main tourist attractions. -Agencies |
