Electric generator set explodes, kills 1 Egyptian national

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Beirut – An Egyptian national was killed and several others were injured following the explosion of an electric power generator set at al-Sabtieh intersection in Beirut.

Civil defense teams rushed to the scene of the incident to extinguish the fire.

This has been the worst year ever in power blackouts in Lebanon and for this reason the standby electric power generator sets that were designed to run in emergencies only have been running almost continuously. This has resulted in many accidents throughout the country.

The sad part about the blackouts, it is getting worse day by day. Many municipalities are now seriously thinking about generating their own electricity because they cannot depend on the government any longer to provide this vital service.

Parliament has approved spending $1.2 billion on new power plants, and the Cabinet has agreed, as a temporary measure, to rent power-generating ships for up to three years. But disputes over the amounts of kickbacks ( for Energy Minister Gebran Bassil and Finance Minister Mohammad Safadi ) are reportedly behind the delay in the arrival of the power generating ships.

During the past e months, angry protesters across the country set tires on fire and blocked roads in protests against the blackouts

The unprecedented harsh power rationing is burdening not only residents who are bearing the increasing cost of power generators but also on businesses and is threatening the food, economic and social safety according to local observers.

LBC/ Agencies

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7 responses to “Electric generator set explodes, kills 1 Egyptian national”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar

    Kickbacks Kickbacks Kickbacks … all we hear … need to kick some ASSES !!!
    There should NEVER be kickbacks. These guys think they are CEO’s of companies … not heads of STATE !!!
    PACK OF IDIOTS.
    And yes, equipment fails. Certainly NOT a good spot to put anything generating power. Idiots.
    And yes, they threaten everybody.
    Better to go back to wood-fires and oil lamps. Might as well cut down the olive trees … the cedars are almost gone.
    Winter elsewhere … like Somalia.

    Would be nice to know a ’cause’ for this one. Did anyone train the Egyptian worker on ‘fuel-handling’ around electrical equipment?

  2. 5thDrawer Avatar

    Kickbacks Kickbacks Kickbacks … all we hear … need to kick some ASSES !!!
    There should NEVER be kickbacks. These guys think they are CEO’s of companies … not heads of STATE !!!
    PACK OF IDIOTS.
    And yes, equipment fails. Certainly not a good spot to put anything generating power. Idiots.

    1. breakthemould Avatar
      breakthemould

       Wishfull thinking 5th Drawer ask about the ambulance men please, they usually do not arrive in a hurry neither does the traffic in Beirut give way to them. Yet a lot of these drivers go to church and mosques regularly, what does the Sheikh and priest teach them on Fridays and Sundays? Where is our humanity? I bet there is no power cut in Aind El Teeneh or the above 2 boys home of residences. If we can bring some Lebanese CEO’s of major companies who immigrated overseas they will be fit to be presidents and they will sort the job out, no problem. Our lot cannot organise a tea party.

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar

        But I thought that was what what they dragged Mikati back for. Sorting it out. 😉

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