Two Huge Explosions Rock Lebanese Capital, Beirut
A picture shows the scene of an explosion in Beirut on August 4, 2020. Anwar AMRO / AFPTwo enormous explosions rocked the Lebanese capital’s port on Tuesday, killing and wounding dozens of people, shaking buildings and sending huge plumes of smoke billowing into the Beirut sky.
A soldier at the port, who asked not to be named, told AFP: “It’s a catastrophe inside. There are corpses on the ground. Ambulances are still lifting the dead.”The explosions “caused dozens of injuries,” a security source said. The port zone was cordoned off by the security forces, allowing access only to a string of ambulances, fire trucks and people whose relatives were working inside the devastated area, while others were screaming to be let through.
Benjamin Strick, who works with investigations website Bellingcat, said on Twitter that the explosions appeared to have been centred on a 130 metre grey warehouse alongside a dock inside the port zone. A picture shows the scene of an explosion near the port in the Lebanese capital Beirut on August 4, 2020. STR / AFPThe explosions hit Lebanon as it suffers its worst economic crisis in decades which has left nearly half of the population in poverty.
The explosions also come as Lebanon awaits a UN tribunal’s verdict Friday on the 2005 murder of former Lebanese premier Rafic Hariri, killed in a huge truck bomb attack.
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