Deaths and Injuries in Several Traffic Accidents

Four people were killed and another four injured at dawn Thursday when two passenger vans collided on the highway in the eastern town of Ferzol.

Witnesses told Naharnet that a green van was heading from Zahle towards Ablah when it struck another white van coming from the other direction.

All casualties were from the second vehicle, they said.

The witnesses, who are residents of Ferzol, told Naharnet that the driver of the green van caused the accident after falling asleep.

He escaped after the collision to avoid arrest.

But the other driver handed himself over to the Lebanese army in Ablah for questioning, the residents said.

The Red Cross transported the wounded to hospitals in the area.

The Traffic Management Center also said that one person was killed on Wednesday night in a collision between two cars on the Damour highway south of Beirut.

An individual was injured when four vehicles collided on the Khaldeh highway near the capital.

Another two people were wounded on Thursday morning in a traffic accident involving three cars on the Dbayeh highway north of Beirut, TMC added.

G.K.

H.K.