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Lebanon turns to neighbours for aid in fighting forest fires

Lebanon has turned to its neighbours’ countries for assistancewith battling forest fires that have devastated homes and killed a volunteer firefighter in the Mediterranean country.

“We have contacted the Europeans who will send means of help,” Prime Minister Saad Hariri said in comments carried by national news agency NNA.
On her part, Interior Minister Raya El-Hassan told nearby Cyprus and Greece had reacted to Lebanon’s call for help. “Two Cypriot planes have been working to put out the fires since yesterday,” she said on Twitter.

Furthermore, Jordan’s army said the king had commanded two firefighting planes to be dispatched in order to help in battling the fires.

 

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