Explosion In Beirut.

 

The explosion was like 15 years of war in 15 seconds, says Lebanon's team at the United Nations, comparing its impact to the devastation from the country's civil war that lasted from 1975 to 1990.

Now, amid financial meltdown and political turmoil, Lebanon has to undertake a single recovery effort of unprecedented scale.

The level of destruction is hard to believe and it is everywhere. 

 

At the port, the grain silo that stored much of the country's wheat supplies is a tomb-like wreck rising from vaporised remains of the docks. Where people worked unloading ships there is now a flooded crater more than 40m (130ft) deep.

Among the dead there were at least 43 Syrian workers, according to embassy officials. The homes and savings of many refugee families who lived in nearby industrial neighbourhoods have been destroyed.

 At least 100 people were killed and nearly 4,000 injured in a massive explosion of Beirut. The explosion, according to the Lebanon government, was of over 2700 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored for six years in a warehouse in the port. Multiple reports suggest that a huge tremor-causing explosion was preceded by a fire, possibly of firecrackers.

 

Within hours, reports came up quoting Lebanon government officials that the explosion was that of over 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, seized six years ago.

Lebanon Prime Minister Hassan Diab details of the storage will be announced soon, and that those responsible will not be spared.

While it is too early to conclude on the exact sequence of events leading to the explosion, various theories of it being an attack or an act of sabotage will have to be verified as part of the investigation.

US President Donald Trump in his briefings to the press on Tuesday called the incident to be an ‘attack’, something which has since been denied by US officials, as reported by the US media. The blast casualties have overwhelmed the health system of the country which has been in a serious financial crisis and because medical facilities have themselves been hit by the explosion.

 

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