The glass and debris from Tuesday's explosion in Beirut injured Imad Khalil and Lina Alameh, but both say they are lucky to be alive. The husband and wife now lay in a local hospital room, together, recovering.
The husband and wife now lay in a local hospital room, together, recovering from the glass and debris that tore through their apartment -- and them.Lina needed three hours of surgery. Imad, whom Lina says was seriously injured and had to be transported down 11 flights of stairs on the back of a door, needed six hours in surgery.The first explosion, as seen in Lina Alameh's video.They are among the thousands across Beirut who were injured in the blast.
"All I remember is flying up in the air," Imad told CNN on the phone, from his hospital bed.Both say they were knocked unconscious. When Lina woke up, she saw that her husband --still unconscious -- had been cut by glass all over his body and was bleeding profusely.Lina Alameh in her hospital bed.Lina says she had been thrown through a glass door, which broke her elbow, cut a tendon and injured her back. That's in addition to multiple cuts from the glass.
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