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  • Olga uncovers tunnel under Roumieh prison

    roumieh prison

    The stories you read about Roumieh prison every once in a while can easily qualify for Hollywood movie scripts! The latest among these stories is discovering a 2 meters wide unfinished underground tunnel that can let hundreds of prisoners escape thanks to the snowstorm we got last week.

    After last week’s snowstorm dubbed Olga, prison guards were shocked at the immense amounts of water flowing from the prison cells, the daily said.

    A maintenance team was rushed to fix the problem as heavy rainfall lashed inside the prison from unknown sources. They found an unfinished two meters wide underground tunnel, the daily added.

    You can read more here.

  • More of the storm photos from all around Lebanon

    The Daily Star has some nice photos from almost all around Lebanon showing how the snow blanketed most of the Lebanese villages yesterday, in addition to photos of how bad the situation is in Hay El Sellom after Al-Ghadir flooded the whole area.

    Aley

    Aley

    Baalbeck

    Baalbeck

    Bhamdoun

    Bhamdoun

    Dahr El Baidar

    Dahr El Baydar 1

    Dahr El Baydar

    Damaged sea road in Dbayeh

    Dbayeh

    Hasroun

    Hasroun

    Hay El Sellom

    Hay el sellom 1

    Hay el sellom 2

    Hay el sellom 3

    Hay el sellom

    Jezzine (Yep, nothing can take away our arguileh, not even a snowstorm)

    Jezzine

    Saida

    Saida

    For more photos you can check the Daily Star galleries here, here, and here. And for more about the flood in Hay El Sellom you can also check the below news report by Al Jadeed.