3 Dead, 9 Hurt in Separate Traffic Accidents

Traffic accidents are still causing a lot of casualties on Lebanese roads, leaving three people dead and nine others injured on Friday alone.

“Hussein Sobhi Zoaiter, 14, was killed in a traffic accident in the Bekaa town of al-Knaisseh,” state-run National News Agency reported.

Also in the Bekaa, a collision between a Renault Rapid car and a pickup truck resulted in the death of 31-year-old Ali Mahdi Ayyoub at the intersection of the town of Sarein on the Riyaq-Baalbek road.

Ayyoub hails from the Bekaa town of Ali al-Nahri, according to NNA.

Meanwhile, the Internal Security Forces-affiliated Traffic Management Center announced the death of one person in the collision of a vehicle into the median barrier on the Damour-Sidon highway south of Beirut.

Also on Friday, Civil Defense crews managed to evacuate six wounded people from a car and a passenger bus after they collided on the Dahr al-Baydar road.

Rescue crews used cutting tools to allow the evacuation of passengers from the damaged vehicles.

Earlier on Friday, two people were injured when a vehicle flipped over on the Shekka-Kfar Hazir road in the North.

Another person was wounded when a truck skidded off the Emile Lahoud Highway and collided into a cement wall.

Y.R.