State security patrols toured stations in the areas of Tyre, the Ras al-Ain coast, al-Qulaylah, and al-Naqoura, forcing their owners to open their hoses by force.

It warned the owners of the stations against closing them under penalty of perjury, and subjecting the violators to records of seizure and closure with red wax.

Several stations had raised their hoses in Beirut, the south, the north and the Bekaa in the past few days, due to the failure to receive gasoline from the oil importing companies, which caused the return of queues.