WE KNOW ABOUT THE EXPLOSION
A huge explosion hit Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, on Tuesday. The blast occurred near the city’s port area, located in the center of the capital.
At least 3,000 people have been injured and 60 have died, writes the news agency AP.
The explosion occurred in a warehouse filled with explosive ammonium nitrate that can be used both as fertilizer and to make bombs. This is what Lebanon’s Interior Minister Mohamed Fehmi says. The country’s security chief, Abbas Ibrahim, says the explosive materials had been confiscated from a ship months before.
EYEWITNESS SAYS ABOUT THE EXPLOSION
First everything started to shake, then there was a very loud explosion, and windows were broken, says Danish Amanda Flyvbjerg .
She was sitting in her apartment in Beirut a few kilometers from the explosion itself. She says the situation is chaotic and that the devastation is marked.
According to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC), the explosion could be felt in Cyprus, which is more than 230 kilometers from Beirut.
SO GREAT IS THE DAMAGE
The damage after the explosion is so extensive that military bulldozers had to clear roads for firefighters and ambulances to reach the destroyed area of the port, writes NRP .
Information is that the destruction extends a minimum of ten kilometers away from the port. Pictures of the airport, which is about ten kilometers away, have been totally eaten up, according to several media. The Arab media Akhbar has shared photos from the airport showing the extensive destruction.
Lebanon’s presidential palace was also included in the blast, writes CNN. The same was the Danish embassy in Lebanon, just as several employees have been treated for injuries. The embassy is located about 2.5 kilometers away from the port where the explosion took place.
