BEIRUT: Fire broke out in a truck in a main square in central Beirut where protesters had converged on Saturday to demand the fall of Lebanon's ruling class and government after last Tuesday's explosion, witnesses said.

Several other smaller fires broke out in the vicinity of the protest area.

(Reporting by Beirut Newsroom, Writing by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; Editing by Angus MacSwan) ((suleiman.al-khalidi@thomsonreuters.com; +96279-5521407;))