Beirut [Lebanon], October 11 (ANI/Sputnik): A fire erupted in a fuel storage tank at the Zahrani oil facility in southern Lebanon on Monday, national media reported.

"Employees [of the civil defense service] began putting out a fire that broke out in one of the benzene storage tanks at the Zahrani facility," a source in the civil defense service told the Al-Jadeed TV channel.

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The cause of the fire is unknown. (ANI/Sputnik)

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