Rain, strike cause garbage flood in Beirut streets

Streets in parts of the Lebanese capital turned into rivers of garbage as heavy rains washed through mountains of rubbish that have piled up on the sides of the streets in Beirut during a months-long waste collection crisis. A video being circulated by an online activist group calling itself "You Stink" showed hundreds of trash bags being washed away by flood waters through the Bauchrieh neighbourhood on Sunday. Mounds of garbage piled up in and around Beirut had lain unattended for nearly three months after the country's largest landfill, Naameh, closed in July.