Heavy rainfall flooded several major roads, causing traffic jams across Beirut and its suburbs Tuesday evening, according to L'Orient Today's journalists on the scene.
Heavy rainfall regularly leads to flooding and traffic chaos in Lebanon
Heavy rainfall flooded several major roads, causing traffic jams across Beirut and its suburbs Tuesday evening, according to L'Orient Today's journalists on the scene.
The Traffic Management Center wrote on X that rain water flooded the Dbayeh-Zalka highway. Roads in Jdeideh as well as those leading to the airport were also flooded by heavy rainfall, TMC said.
The airport road, the Dbayeh-Zalka highway and the Dawra highway are all heavily congested with traffic jams, our journalists reported.
Heavy rainfall regularly leads to flooding and traffic chaos in Lebanon. Last November, a man died in Kesrouan when he was swept away by floodwaters.
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