Lebanon is to go into darkness within hours, as the company of “Electricite du Liban” says it will consider the company as “forcibly closed” after contract workers shut the company’s entrances in Mar Mikhael in Beirut.

Lebanon is to go into darkness within hours, as the company of “Electricite du Liban” says it will consider the company as “forcibly closed” after contract workers shut the company’s entrances in Mar Mikhael in Beirut.

The administrative board of the company convened on Monday and issued the following statement:
“The participants have decided to consider the company as forcibly closed, following its occupation by some contract workers, until it will be freed from those workers”.

The statement warned that this measure “will lead to a power blackout throughout Lebanon within the next few hours.”