Ring Road Traffic

The way back from the training center to our hotel is via the Ring Road that comes up from the south, up past the airport and to the north. The drive usually only takes 10-15 minutes, but today traffic came to a complete halt and our driver switched off the engine. After about 10 minutes, we started moving again and as we passed Bole Road, which runs through the city from the airport, I could see there were no cars on it. The next street to the north was jam packed and bottlenecked, so Bole had obviously been blockaded as well.
Turns out that military police had been blocking traffic, likely because someone important was coming in from the airport. It could very well have had something to do with the crash of ET409. My sincere condolences goes out to all those with loved ones who were on board. Latest reports from BBC have not release specific names (other than the wife of the French Ambassador to Lebanon) but they have found no survivors at this point.