Lebanon PM warns of 'dangerous' chemicals in oil facility
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210326-lebanon-pm-warns-of-dangerous-chemicals-in-oil-facility/
Lebanon's outgoing Prime Minister, Hassan Diab, said today that experts had found "dangerous chemicals" at a warehouse at the Zahrani oil installations in the south, Reuters reported.
Diab said the country's atomic energy authority had identified the substances as "nuclear" after reviewing a report by German company Combi Lift, which Lebanon had tasked with clearing hazardous material at Beirut port.
A Combi Lift spokesman said they did not have any knowledge of the Zahrani issue.
"This needs to be discussed now and needs to be dealt with promptly," a statement by Lebanon's higher defence council cited Diab as saying after a meeting.
His comments came nearly eight months after a stockpile of chemicals detonated in Beirut, killing nearly 200 people in one of the largest non-nuclear explosions on record. The ammonium nitrate went up in flames last August after being stored unsafely at the port for years.