A senior US official called on Saturday for a 'thorough, transparent and credible' investigation into this month's Beirut port blast that killed 172 people and injured 6,000.
A senior US official called on Saturday for a “thorough, transparent and credible” investigation into this month's Beirut port blast that killed 172 people and injured 6,000.
The August 4 blast, which the authorities say was caused by more than 2,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate that had been unsafely stored at the port since 2013, damaged swathes of the city and left 300,000 homeless. Some 30 people remain missing. People look at the damaged port area following a massive explosion, in Beirut, Lebanon, on August 14 2020.He added that FBI agents would be arriving this weekend to help find out what exactly happened and “what led to the circumstances of this explosion”.
In his strongest intervention yet since the blast, Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rai also said the church reserved the right to veto any proposals that further jeopardise Lebanon. His comments in a sermon were reported by Lebanese broadcaster LBC.
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