When he saw the news alert — “huge explosion in central Beirut” — Jad El Tal felt a shock wave thousands of kilometres away. There were local reports of more than 70 people killed and more than 3,000 injured as of Tuesday night. “It’s so hard to feel helpless.”Sarah Bakri, a 25-year-old communications student, grew up in Canada but most of her family is back in Lebanon. She woke up to news of the explosion and couldn’t reach her cousin at first, who works less than a kilometre from the centre. “It was definitely hard to reach them because you don’t even know if there phone is charged .

Source: thestar August 04, 2020 22:11 UTC