The sheer scale of the devastation in Beirut has been laid bare now the smoke and toxic red cloud have blown away.
A huge circular section of land where a warehouse once stood is now full of water after it was blasted away along with surrounding buildings and ships.AdvertisementThe blast totally destroyed buildings in the port and sent shockwaves for miles around, damaging half of the city
At least 135 people were killed and thousands more injured in the explosion – said to be a fifth of the force of the nuclear Hiroshima bomb – when some 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate were ignited at a waterfront warehouse.The blast sent a flaming red mushroom cloud into the sky and shockwaves that damaged half of the Lebanese capital.
Lebanon’s government has put an unspecified number of Beirut port officials under house arrest pending an investigation into how the highly explosive chemical came to be stored at the port for years. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the Lebanese prime minister told him there would be a ‘full, thorough and rigorous investigation to get to the truth – I think the people of the Lebanon deserve no less – and that there will be full accountability’.To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that
The Government has said all embassy staff based in Beirut are accounted for, but some have suffered ‘non-life-threatening injuries’.‘We are not sure on the precise figures in relation to UK nationals there, we will obviously want to bottom out that in the days ahead,’ the Foreign Secretary said.Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at
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