The explosions hit a country already reeling from its worst economic crisis in decades. FMTNews Beirut
BEIRUT: Two enormous explosions devastated Beirut’s port on Tuesday, leaving at least 73 people dead and thousands injured, shaking distant buildings and spreading panic and chaos across the Lebanese capital.
The blasts were heard throughout the small country and as far away as Nicosia on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, 240km away. “It appears there is a warehouse containing material that was confiscated years ago, and it appears that it was highly explosive material,” he said. Retired US nuclear scientist Cheryl Rofer tweeted that the “red cloud” of the massive blast was “very likely ammonium nitrate”, a common agricultural fertiliser that is a highly explosive compound.People evacuate from buildings following the blast which came from a warehouse alongside a dock.
AFP video footage showed areas of near-complete devastation, with cars flipped onto their roofs like children’s toys, warehouses flattened and survivors drenched from head to toe in their own blood.
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