Protesters block roads, rocket shot at gas station as Lebanon crisis continues

Al-Monitor Staff

Aug 18, 2021

Funeral for four killed in fuel tank explosion — Armed men shoot in the air on Aug. 18, 2021, during the funeral of four members of the Shteiteh family in the village of al-Daouseh in Lebanon's Akkar region; the four were among 28 killed in the Aug. 15 fuel tank explosion in the nearby village of al-Tleil. The blast scorched a crowd clamoring for gasoline the army had been distributing in light of severe fuel shortages that have paralyzed a country also beset by medicine, gas and bread shortages. — IBRAHIM CHALHOUB/AFP via Getty Images

Protesters blocked several roads and a rocket was fired at a gas station Wednesday as public anger continues to rise in Lebanon over the debilitating economic crisis.

Local residents cut off a road in the coastal city of Sidon in protest against worsening fuel shortages. Protesters in nearby Zahrani also blocked a street to a gas station that refused to sell fuel. Demonstrators also forced road closures in Tripoli and Beddawi in the north, the official National News Agency reported.