2 minutes agoPower crisis: All Lebanon in the dark, 20 hours a day without electricity
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)The political and economic crisis in Lebanon has plunged this country's people into darkness. It's now out of coal and some are experiencing power reductions up to 20 hours a day. All of this is happening at the time of a global power crisis, which is already knocking around in our country. Hospitals [...]
Hospitals have cut essential services while motorists are driving on their engines for hours to fill with oil.
For those citizens who cannot afford electricity, the only salvation is candles, reports the BBC, translates Periscope.
Hasan, a resident in Beirut, despite being ill I can do nothing in the dark.
Outside, its neighbors gather under solar - powered street lamps.
They call themselves <x0-refuge power”
“There's water, no electricity, no strut, nothing, 18x1> says Aishe Almahmod.
Gas pumps have also become tense spots, where lack of oil killed people among themselves.
