Explosion at Zouk Power Plant Kills Worker

A steam turbine at the Zouk Thermal Power Plant north east of Beirut exploded on Thursday killing one of the plant's engineers, the National News Agency reported.

“The explosion had seriously injured an engineer who was identified as Toni Jarjoura,” it added.

Jarjoura, a Syrian national, was carrying out maintenance work for a steam turbine with a number of other workers, which led to the explosion of the turbine and serious injury, reports said.

Civil Defense Rescue Team transported the man to a nearby hospital but he died shortly after.

The power plant is the largest in Lebanon, constituted mostly of gas turbines.