Witnesses and media said that Lebanese demonstrators set fire to roads and clashed with security forces in the second night of unrest on Friday, which extended until the moment this news was published.
On Thursday, protests erupted in several Lebanese cities after the collapse of the lira, which has lost about 70 percent of its value since October, when Lebanon sank into a financial crisis that exacerbated living conditions.
The lira appeared to hold on Friday after the government announced that the central bank would pump the dollar into the market on Monday.
However, as the night fell, the demonstrators threw fireworks and stones at the security forces in central Beirut and the city of Tripoli in the north, and the police responded by firing tear gas and rubber bullets to repel them in the second night of unrest.
The unrest comes as Beirut talks with the International Monetary Fund about a reform program in which it hopes to get billions of dollars in financing and get its economy back on the right track.
The crisis, which was exacerbated by decades of corruption and waste, caused food and unemployment prices to rise and capital restrictions that prevented the Lebanese from obtaining their savings in foreign currencies.