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

Lebanon is experiencing severe fuel, medicine and water shortages and politicians are still unable to form a new government.
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
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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. 

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