Lebanese security forces arrested the owner of the fuel tank, which caused a blast in Beirut on Friday evening, killing 4 people and wounding more than 30 people.
The detainee is said to run a private generator that provides electricity to the residents of the “Tariq Al Jdide” area, when the daily power outages occur.
The massive blast resulted in killing 4 victims and injuring a number of people , while 3 children suffered nasty burns, as well as causing suffocation, according to a medical source at the hospital.
Fire Brigade Lieutenant Ali Najm said there was a fire and explosion in a warehouse containing a fuel tank, adding the cause of the explosion was “still unknown.”
"The number of causalities increased to four," the Lebanese Red Cross said on twitter, updating the toll from two dead.
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The panic spread in the city already ravaged by a deadly blast on August 4 as Luna Safwan, Beirut resident, commented on the “fuel tank” blast on her twitter saying that the blast had been 'heard all over the city'.
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Governor Marwan Aboud assured Al Jadeed that “evacuations are continuing,” adding that Beirut municipality has been looking, in the last few weeks, for warehouses that could be in breach of the law or pose a danger to residential areas.
"We have ordered some of them to close and required others to put in place procedures to protect the public," Aboud added. "We feared that such an accident could happen."
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