The environment ministry was on
Thursday investigating the mysterious red color that tainted the Beirut River a
day earlier, urging the Hazmiyeh and Baabda municipalities to cooperate with
it.
Beirut police went in vain up and
down the stream on Wednesday to locate the source of the red liquid.
As Safir daily said that the
ministry’s team of experts headed by Bassam Sabbagh made an initial finding that
the pollutant has no odor and that the red color could come from blood, a
chemical, or a dye.
“The source of the pollution hasn’t
been identified yet because it comes from a closed sewage,” Environment
Minister Nazem al-Khoury said. “But it could probably be from the Hazmiyeh or
Baabda municipalities.”
He urged the municipalities to
cooperate as soon as possible to determine the source and type of pollution.
“There is a possibility that a
factory threw pollutants or a slaughterhouse” threw the remains of animals,
al-Khoury said.
An unlicensed farm could also be behind the
pollution, he added.
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