Relatives of Port Victims Mark 2 Months since Tragedy
Relatives of the Beirut port blast victims on Sunday staged a sit-in to mark two months since the deadly disaster.
After blocking the Charles Helou Highway for some time, demanding that officials communicate with them and unveil the latest developments in the ongoing probe, the relatives released white balloons carrying the victims’ names into the air.
The August 4 explosion at the port, Lebanon’s biggest peacetime disaster and one of the strongest non-nuclear blasts in history, killed around 200 people, wounded over 6,500 others and left around 300,000 homeless.
It was blamed on a fire that triggered a small initial blast that detonated around 2,750 tons of the highly explosive ammonium nitrate substance that had been languishing unsecured at the port for around seven years.
Source: Naharnet
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