Beirut Explosion: How You Can Help Victims In Lebanon
They are the haunting images of Beirut’s injured — their faces covered in stitches and scars from when the windows horrifically blew out across the city. Lebanese media carried images of people trapped under rubble, some bloodied, after the massive explosions, the cause of which was not immediately known. Local media reported the port’s general manager was among those detained. The interview, his first with foreign media since the Aug. 4 blast, aired late Saturday. The devastation wrought by the massive explosion in Beirut yesterday (Aug. 4) is viscerally apparent in satellite photos. “Just yesterday I needed to cover the windows because it rained,” Odette said. The explosion blew out windows in buildings across the city and could be felt as far as Cyprus, hundreds of miles away. Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this article reported the source of the explosion was a blaze at a firecracker factory. CNN initially said the source was a blaze at a firecracker factor. One of Israel’s top bomb experts, Boaz Hayoun, said fireworks could have been a factor setting off the bigger blast. Hayoun, owner of the Tamar Group, which works closely with the Israeli government on safety and certification issues involving explosives.
An Israeli government official said Israel ``had nothing to do’’ with the blast. Several of Beirut’s hospitals were damaged in the blast. The death toll from Beirut’s massive explosion on 4 August has climbed to 171, a health ministry spokesperson said. Lebanon’s economy minister, Raoul Nehme, said the wheat in Beirut’s port granaries cannot be used and that the ministry has lost track of seven employees at the site. Smoke rises from the site of an explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. If there’s a name listed, search the name, then go directly to the web site. The fire then appeared to catch at a nearby building, triggering a more massive explosion, sending up a mushroom cloud and a shock wave. BEIRUT: A massive explosion rocked Beirut on Tuesday, flattening much of the city’s port, damaging buildings across the capital and sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky. A red mushroom cloud floated hundreds of feet above the city, photographs showed. It destroyed buildings, flattened houses, ripped balconies from apartments, tossed cars from the nearby motorway and sent a massive plume of red smoke billowing into the sky. A picture shows the scene of an explosion in Beirut on Aug. 4, 2020. Two huge explosion rocked the Lebanese capital Beirut, wounding dozens of people, shaking buildings and sending huge plumes of smoke billowing into the sky.
In Cyprus, a Mediterranean island 180 kilometres northwest of Beirut, residents reported hearing two large bangs in quick succession. His wife Aisha and two young sons Yahya, 3, and Zakariya, 2, were in a room of the house in Beirut where Ahmad works as a caretaker when the blast struck. Lebanon’s caretaker health minister on Monday called for a two-week nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the virus as the country registered a single-day record of 439 cases. At 6.08pm, church bells rang and mosques called for prayer at the precise moment the massive explosion detonated last week. The new figure, up from 160, came a week since the blast destroyed swathes of the Lebanese capital, wounding more than 6,000 and temporarily displacing 300,000 people from their homes. The blast came at a time when Lebanon’s economy is facing collapse from the financial crisis and the coronavirus restrictions. In a televised address on Wednesday, Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun ramped up calls for the international community to help with the humanitarian crisis in Beirut.
His injured mother and father were taken to a hospital but he didn’t know which, and he was making calls trying to track them down. She will know her father died for a reason. Lebanon after sending three planes of medical equipment but did not specify how much that will mean in terms of exact figures. It was reminiscent of massive blasts during Lebanon’s civil war and took place only three days before a UN-backed tribunal was set to give its verdict in the killing of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in a truck bombing more than 15 years ago. A two-weeks state of emergency was declared in Lebanon, and the country will officially observe three days of mourning from Wednesday. Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun has declared three days of national mourning. I haven’t seen anything like that since the days of the (civil) war,’’ said Marwan Ramadan, who was about 500 meters (yards) from the port and was knocked off his feet by the force of the explosion.
The blast struck with the force of a 3.5 magnitude earthquake, according to Germany’s geosciences center GFZ, and it was heard and felt as far away as Cyprus more than 200 kilometers (180 miles) across the Mediterranean. The blast shook buildings and left a tall plume of smoke which could be seen from far away. The city of Beirut, Lebanon was rocked Tuesday by an explosion near the city’s port area that so far has killed dozens, injured thousands, and left unfathomable damage throughout the city and region. CNN later reported there were conflicting accounts from authorities and news outlets in Lebanon of what caused the blast, though. There explosion damaged grains silos in the port which are a strategic reserve of wheat for the crisis-hit nation. A large explosion was reported in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon Tuesday afternoon. The IRC began working in Lebanon in 2012, supporting both Syrian refugees and vulnerable Lebanese communities.