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Lebanon explosion: Huge blast rocks Beirut
A massive blast has killed dozens of people in Beirut and injured thousands more. Warning: Graphic content.
Andrew Backhouse and Ben Graham
news.com.au
August 5, 2020 6:43am
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An enormous explosion in Beirut. Picture: Twitter/BorzouSource:Twitter
A massive mushroom cloud explosion has rocked Lebanon’s capital city Beirut.
At least 50 people have been killed by the blast and thousands were injured.
The blast tore down buildings, ripped balconies from apartments and sent a huge plume of smoke into the sky.
Shocked Beirut City Governor Marwan Aboud said his city was in the midst of a “national disaster akin to Hiroshima’’ and the number of fatalities was expected to skyrocket.
Lebanese media carried images of people trapped under rubble, some bloodied, after the explosion.
“All the buildings around here have collapsed. I’m walking through glass and debris everywhere, in the dark,” one witness told AFP.
It is not yet clear what caused the explosion, but videos show smoke rising from a fire before the blast. There were also reports of a second explosion.
Health Minister Hamad Hassan said the blasts had killed at least 50 people and left 2500 injured by the blast on Tuesday, according to “preliminary estimates”.
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