BEIRUT (Reuters) - Picking up brooms and donning green overalls, dozens of women have taken to cleaning the streets of Beirut after Israeli air strikes scared off refuse collectors and left the capital strewn with festering rubbish.
Around 2,000 refuse collectors and street-sweepers, most of Syrian or Asian origin, have fled Lebanon since the start of the war 18 days ago, paralysing Sukleen, the firm charged with keeping Beirut and Mount Lebanon clean.
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