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The damaged grain silo and a burnt boat at Beirut’s harbour, a day after a powerful twin explosion tore through Lebanon’s capital after a huge depot of ammonium nitrate at the port caught fire © AFP \/ STR<\/b><\/p><\/div>\n

Beirut, Lebanon, Aug 5 – <\/i>Anger mounted in Lebanon on Wednesday as rescuers searched for survivors of a cataclysmic explosion at Beirut port that wreaked destruction across the city, killing at least 113 people, wounding thousands and plunging crisis-striken Lebanon further into the abyss.<\/p>\n

The blast on Tuesday, apparently triggered by a fire igniting 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate fertiliser left unsecured in a warehouse of Beirut port, was heard as far as Cyprus, some 150 miles (240 kilometres) away.<\/p>\n

It struck the Lebanese capital like an earthquake, with dozens still missing on Wednesday, thousands of people left destitute and thousands more cramming into overwhelmed hospitals for treatment.<\/p>\n

One doctor, his own head bandaged like those of his patients, described the scene as “Armageddon”.<\/p>\n

“Wounded people bleeding out in the middle of the street, others lying on the ground in the hospital courtyard,” said Dr Antoine Qurban outside Hotel Dieu Hospital in central Beirut.<\/p>\n

And as volunteers led the clear-up effort, public outrage mounted over how such a vast haul of highly combustible material — sometimes used for homemade bombs — had been stored next to a densely populated area for at least six years.<\/p>\n

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Satellite images show Beirut’s port before and after Tuesday’s massive blast © CNES\/AFP<\/b><\/p><\/div>\n

The government vowed to investigate and cabinet urged the military to place those responsible for storing the substance under house arrest.<\/p>\n

But Lina Daoud, a 45-year-old resident of the devastated Mar Mikhail district where the explosion had strewn bodies in the street, blasted the country’s politicians as “enemies of the state”.<\/p>\n

“They killed our dreams, our future,” she said. “Lebanon was a heaven, they have made it hell.”<\/p>\n

An initial explosion and fire at the port had sent many people to balconies and rooftops where they were filming when the fertiliser exploded, sending out a massive shockwave across the city.<\/p>\n

In an instant, the blast left destruction likened to that caused by the country’s 1975-1990 civil war, levelling buildings several hundred metres (yards) away.<\/p>\n

City mayor Abboud said the devastation may have left 300,000 people temporarily homeless, adding to the cash-strapped country’s economic misery with an estimated $3 billion in damages.<\/p>\n

“Even in the worst years of the civil war, we didn’t see so much damage over such a large area,” said analyst Kamal Tarabey.<\/p>\n

– Warnings ignored –<\/p>\n

The disaster came with Lebanon already on its knees with a months-long economic crisis and currency devaluation sparking spiralling poverty even before the coronavirus pandemic hit.<\/p>\n

The embattled government of Prime Minister Hassan Diab vowed that “those responsible for this catastrophe will pay the price”.<\/p>\n

The ammonium nitrate had been stored in a rundown port warehouse with cracks in its walls, officials told AFP. <\/p>\n

Security forces launched an investigation in 2019 after the warehouse started to exude a strange odour, concluding the “dangerous” chemicals needed to be removed, but action was not taken.<\/p>\n

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Beirut’s Mar Mikhail district was devastated by the blast © AFP \/ PATRICK BAZ<\/b><\/p><\/div>\n

Analyst and Georgetown University professor Faysal Itani was not optimistic that anybody would be held accountable.<\/p>\n

“There is a pervasive culture of negligence, petty corruption and blame-shifting endemic to the Lebanese bureaucracy, all overseen by a political class defined by its incompetence and contempt for the public good,” he wrote in a New York Times op-ed.<\/p>\n

“These politicians are well practiced in shifting the blame.”<\/p>\n

Messages of support poured in from around the world, including Britain’s Queen Elizabeth who said she was “deeply saddened” by the disaster. <\/p>\n

France said it would send three planes of aid, followed by a visit Thursday by President Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo offered assistance, while Defense Secretary Mark Esper played down President Donald Trump’s earlier suggestion that a bomb had been responsible. <\/p>\n

“Most believe that it was an accident as reported,” Esper told the Aspen Security Forum.<\/p>\n

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization warned Wednesday that the destruction of the port and grain silos would cause critical severe flour shortages, in a country heavily reliant on imports.<\/p>\n

Social media user voiced outrage at the government, saying such a disaster could only strike because of the ineptitude and corruption riddling Lebanon’s institutions.<\/p>\n

– Hariri verdict suspended –<\/p>\n

Hospitals already stretched to the brink by a spike in coronavirus cases were pushed to new limits by the influx of wounded and were forced to turn many away.<\/p>\n

Lebanon has recorded 5,417 cases of COVID-19, including 68 deaths.<\/p>\n

“We’ve had some dark days in Lebanon over the years but this is something else,” said Rami Rifai, a 38-year-old engineer.<\/p>\n

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The blast obliterated Beirut’s port facilities and triggered fires on board ships in dock © AFP<\/b><\/p><\/div>\n

He spoke to AFP from a hospital where his two daughters were receiving treatment after sustaining cuts despite being half a kilometre from the seat of the blast.<\/p>\n

“We already had the economic crisis, a government of thieves and coronavirus. I didn’t think it could get worse but now I don’t know if this country can get up again,” he said. <\/p>\n

In the Netherlands, a UN-backed tribunal said it had suspended a verdict on the 2005 murder in a huge Beirut bomb blast of former Lebanese premier Rafic Hariri, scheduled for Friday, following the latest carnage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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