12-year-old boy dies in drowning incident at resort in Minyeh
According to NNA, the boy was from the town of Beit al-Faqs in the Dinnieh region.
Such incidents are not uncommon along the Lebanese coast, especially when the sea is rough.
In late June, a man and a six-year-old girl died in separate drowning incidents off the coast of Tripoli and on a beach in Akkar. A 25-year-old man also drowned near Minieh while swimming off a local beach.
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