Four Men Suffocate in Ancient Lebanon Well
<i> Associated Press</i>
TYRE, Lebanon —
Four men who went down a well dating back to the Phoenician period in the hopes of finding treasure inside suffocated and died, police said.
A police spokesman said the four, who died Thursday, were among a group of 10 amateurs who discovered the well in this southern port city, which was a major Phoenician trading center more than 3,000 years before Jesus. The spokesman said the well dates back to that period.
The other six emerged safely from the 18-foot-deep well, the spokesman said.
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