By Adam Ali.
Benghazi, 15 February 2015:
A petrol shipment from Tobruk arrived in Benghazi Sunday morning, to the evident joy of local . . .[restrict]residents but causing interminable queues and chaos at the pumps.
At one station, as many as 300 cars waited for up to three hours to fill up their tanks, an eye-witness said.
The scene at the station was chaotic.
“The line wasn’t moving, so I got out of my car and walked for over ten minutes to find out what was happening. I was not surprised to find everyone screaming at one another, trying to fill up their tanks before the fuel ran out,” he said.
The manager at the station took decisive action to restore order to the situation.
“The station manager was finally forced to cut of the power to the pumps until everyone calmed down,” he said.
The shipment brought an end, if only temporarily, a week-long fuel crisis that has affected all of the towns in the Jebel Akhdar region of eastern Libya as well as Benghazi.
The shortage was so severe that schools and workplaces were forced to shut in some areas. [/restrict]
