The General Directorate of Civil Defense announced that, in completion of the mission of accompanying the ship loaded with lumber, which ran aground while moving from Sidon to Beirut, civil defense teams, in cooperation with the Lebanese Army Naval Forces and the Beirut Fire Brigade, worked to ensure the safety of the people on board until it arrived at the port of Beirut and docked next to one of the docks. She explained that the ship ran aground yesterday morning due to water seeping into it, noting that it was escorted in coordination with the Joint Search and Rescue Operations Coordination Center (JRCC). She added that as its stranding increased, seven people threw themselves into the sea, and were rescued by the civil defense teams that were accompanying it, and are still in contact with the ship’s captain.