4 People, Including Child, Killed in Separate Accidents in the North
An eight-year-old student was killed and two others were injured on Wednesday when a truck collided with their school bus on the Shekka highway that links the northern city of Tripoli to Beirut, the National News Agency reported.
Azzam Owaida was killed, and Mohammed Hajjaj, 13 and seven-year-old Bahaa Hajjaj were injured when the rear window of the bus smashed in the collision, NNA said.
The agency said the truck sped away from the scene of the accident and the Internal Security Forces launched an investigation to find the driver.
Also Wednesday, three people were killed and one person was seriously injured at the Abu Halqa bridge on the Beirut-Tripoli highway when a Kia went down the bridge to a valley.
Four people were also wounded in a car crash on the main Antelias-Bikfaya road in Qornet Shahwan near Storiom Saliba supermarket.
NNA identified the injured as Marie and Tony Geagea, Yehya Allawi and a Bangladeshi woman.
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