“It was a zoo,” said an accident and emergency doctor at the American University Hospital, Beirut’s finest, which has the best reputation in the Middle East. Leaders of less competent countries are said to be flown to the VIP top floor by helicopter. But today it was a hospital for ordinary Lebanese — those who have survived. Many, the doctor said, had already died by the time they arrived. A restaurant in the Mar Mikhael neighbourhood, one of many wrecked by the explosion JOSEPH KHOURY/ALAMY LIVE NEWSWhen he compared it to a zoo he was talking about the bedlam as the

Source: The Times August 05, 2020 16:07 UTC