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Aug. 05, 2020 | 08:31 AM
More than 100 people still missing after Beirut blast: Beirut Governor Abboud
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Aug. 05, 2020 | 08:23 AM
Beirut blast toll rises to over 100 dead, more than 4,000 wounded: Red Cross
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‘The worst thing I’ve ever seen’: Doctors treat wounded in rubble of destroyed hospitals after Beirut explosions
Scores dead and thousands injured after blasts in Lebanese capital
Bel Trewin Beirut @beltrew
5 hours ago
The explosion was so huge, Emad Abour thought a nuclear bomb had dropped near the hospital where he works in Beirut. The ground rolled like an earthquake. Windows peeled from their metal frames and shattered. Heavy ward doors were lifted from their hinges and thrown across the floor.
The blast wave raged through the city to the mountains, bringing people to their knees. It struck with the force of a 3.5-magnitude earthquake, according to Germany’s geosciences centre GFZ, and was felt 290 km (180 miles) across the Mediterranean in Cyprus.
At St George Hospital, around a kilometre from the epicentre of the explosion at Beirut port, Abour’s ears were still ringing, as he crawled to the intensive care unit to check on patients.
At least 70 people were killed and 3,000 injured by the explosion which rocked the Lebanese capital, flattening much of the port and sending a towering mushroom cloud of grey and red coloured ash into the sky.
“It was the worst thing I have ever seen,” the 21-year-old said, still shaking with blood smeared down his face from pulling the wounded out from rubble and pulling them to safety.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/beirut-explosion-lebanon-hospitals-where-death-toll-what-happened-a9654376.html
Lebanese General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim said the explosions were likely set off by material that had been seized several years ago, according to the Associated Press.
So who is the genius that decided to store them next to a grain silo?
Germany
The German foreign ministry said staff at the German embassy were wounded in the explosion.
"The wounded also include embassy personnel," the ministry said. "We cannot for the moment exclude German nationals figuring among the dead and wounded."
The German embassy building, located not far from the port, was damaged but the "seriousness of the damage cannot yet be determined for now," the foreign ministry said.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said through her spokeswoman that she was shocked by the event and promised aid for Lebanon.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/beirut-explosion-world-reacts-deadly-blast-lebanon-capital-200804190645940.html
Zeina Khodr
@ZeinakhodrAljaz
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7h
Officials call it a disaster … catastrophe … but this was a man made disaster - negligence on part of authorities - highly explosive material stored at #Beirut port where corruption is rampant & where state authority is weak #Lebanon
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