Our correspondent reported that two prisoners were killed in Zahle Prison and a large number of wounded, after a number of prisoners set fires inside Zahle Prison in the Bekaa, northern Lebanon, and it spread to the upper floors of the prison building.
Some prisoners in the prison facility deliberately burned a number of rooms inside the prison, and smoke was seen rising from the windows, while civil defense mechanisms rushed to the place.
Local reports circulated that some prisoners launched a protest movement and set fires inside the rooms, and the fire spread to more than one building inside the prison.
Prisoners’ families flocked to the front of the Zahle prison building, coinciding with the continued entry and exit of Civil Defense and Red Cross vehicles.
The Minister of Interior and Municipalities in the caretaker government, Bassam Mawlawi, followed the developments of the situation, stressing the strengthening of civil defense units that are working to extinguish the fire and evacuate prisoners from inside the rooms.
For his part, Mawlawi assigned the Governor of the Bekaa, Judge Kamal Abu Jaoude, to follow up on field procedures and what is happening on the ground, especially with regard to evacuating prisoners and treating the injured among them.
2023-10-06 15:11:49
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