Still in the fuel crisis, a man allegedly tried to set his car on fire in front of a gas station on the Halba – Khraibet al-Jundi axis in northern Lebanon.
He was said to have been prevented from doing so by those present there as well as by the internal security forces who had come as reinforcements.
This information comes as fuel distributors said they would run out of gasoline as of Monday if the new decision by the Lebanese authorities to increase the parity rate from 1507 LL / USD to 3900 LL / USD used as part of the subsidy program. of this sector. The price of a 20-liter can should therefore drop from around 43,000 LL to over 69,000 LL this week. Some are thus trying to preempt this increase. However, a large part of the petrol stations have already indicated that their stocks are currently exhausted while the precious liquid has been rationed for 2 months already.
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