Month after massive explosion, major fire breaks out at Beirut port


Beirut, Sep 10 (IANS): A major fire broke out at the Beirut port on Thursday, a month after a massive explosion devastated the port facilities and surrounding areas.

As per Al Jazeera's report, the cause of the blaze is yet to be ascertained, which sent a large column of black smoke billowing into the sky.

As many as 191 people were killed and scores of people wounded when 2,750 tonnes of confiscated ammonium nitrate that were stored in a port warehouse for almost seven years exploded on August 4.

More details are awaited.

  

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  • Mario Almeida, Falnir / Mangalore

    Thu, Sep 10 2020

    It WAS a peaceful beautiful hospitable Christian country.

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  • Hussain, uchil

    Thu, Sep 10 2020

    WAR THORN COUNTRY PLENTY DOMESTIC PROBLEMS CANNOT COME UP DUE INFLATION NOW EXPLOSION, NO BODY CAN SAVE LEBANON UNLESS GOD, BUT NATURAL BEAUTIFUL WITH PLENTY GROUP OF POLITICIANS MANY GROUP IN RELIGION EACH GROUP HAVE THEIR OWN POLITICAL PARTY AND THEIR MILITANT

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