Beirut: Officials say at least eight Syrians were killed and 29 were injured when the bus they were travelling in from Syria overturned in the mountains in central Lebanon. The bus was headed to the Lebanese capital, Beirut, when the accident occurred in the Kahhaleh region.
George Kettaneh, operations director for the Lebanese Red Cross, says eight people died in the accident, including women and children.
He says it’s unclear why the bus overturned. Also, it was not immediately known whether the Syrians were refugees fleeing the violence in their country. The bus had Syrian licence plates from the northeastern Hassakeh province, which recently witnessed heavy clashes.
The UN says there are now 360,000 registered Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
