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Beirut explosion: Lebanon president claims ‘missile or bomb’ behind blast

The Lebanese president has made a contentious new claim amid growing anger over why hazardous materials were allowed to languish in the city’s centre.

Hannah Paine and AFP
August 8, 20201:38pm

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French rescue workers search through the rubble in the devastated Beirut port. Picture: JOSEPH EID / AFP. Source:AFP


Lebanon’s President has claimed a “missile or bomb” could have been responsible for a blast that devastated Beirut, killing 154 people.

There has been growing criticism of the country’s leaders since the blast on Tuesday, with it now emerging a huge shipment of hazardous ammonium nitrate had languished for years in a warehouse in the heart of the capital.

President Michel Aoun admitted on Friday that the “paralysed” government system needed to be “reconsidered”.

He pledged “swift justice”, but rejected widespread calls for an international probe, telling a reporter he saw it as an attempt to “dilute the truth”.

“There are two possible scenarios for what happened: it was either negligence or foreign interference through a missile or bomb,” he said, the first time a top Lebanese official raised the possibility that the port had been attacked.

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Lebanese President Michel Aoun. Picture: DALATI AND NOHRA / AFP.Source:AFP


Mr Aoun also confirmed he had known about the ammonium nitrate stockpile since July 20, claiming he had told officials to do “what is needed” with it.

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