In Beirut a fire broke out at a shopping centre being built, marking the third blaze in a week in a city still reeling from a devastating explosion in August.
Firefighters quickly extinguished the flames that damaged a corner of the Beirut Souks’ latticed roof.
There were no reports of any injuries and the cause of the fire is still not identified.
The building was designed by the practice of the renowned late British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid.
Born in Baghdad, Dame Zaha studied maths at the American University of Beirut – where she later designed a building on campus which was completed in 2014 – before embarking on her career at the Architectural Association in London.
Her other creations include the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London, the Riverside Museum at Glasgow’s Museum of Transport, and Guangzhou Opera House in China.
Beirut Souks is located in a commercial district close the city’s port, where a blast six weeks ago killed almost 200 people, wounded 6,000 others, and caused as much as $4.6bn (£3.6bn) of physical damage and $3.5bn of economic damage.
The disaster, which is still under investigation, happened when a fire triggered the detonation of 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate that had been stored unsafely.
