Scan for video Scenes from Beirut: a chopper dumps water, an injured man walks around, flames engulf ships and debris from damaged buildings fill streets inland. Beirut governor Marwan Abboud described the disaster as "an apocalyptic situation" that he estimated might have made 300,000 people homeless. The blast was the most powerful ever to rip through Beirut, a city scarred by civil war three decades ago and reeling from an economic meltdown and coronavirus infections. Many people were watching and filming after an earlier and smaller explosion was heard in the port and started a fire. Then came the big blast, with a ball of fire and smoke rising above Beirut and a white shock wave engulfing everything around it.

Source: The Standard August 05, 2020 19:18 UTC