the huge explosion in the capital beirut yesterday which devastated the port city and damaged many streets and buildings well beyond while the lebanese red cross has said that at least a hundred people have been killed and more than four thousand injured . The huge blast at the port sent shock waves right across the city destroying many nearby buildings and blowing out windows several miles away an investigation is now underway to find out exactly what caused the blast.
Lebanon president speech today
The country's president said that over two thousand tons of ammonium nitrate had been stored unsafely in a warehouse for six years, while the lebanon's prime minister has said that "those authority should be punished, those responsible people will pay the price for what happened today", and he promised to the martyrs and to the wounded for punishing them. This is a national commitment facts will be revealed about this dangerous warehouse that's been there since 2014. While hospitals across the city were quickly overwhelmed, officials feared that the death toll will rise sharply and rescue workers are digging through the rubble to find the survivors.
It was a catastrophic explosion the blast was heard 150 miles away another view from moments earlier shows a fire in beirut port. Authorities say that the flashes were caused by fireworks but then as the sound of the explosion rang out across the city, windows were smashed and buildings were destroyed in the streets of beirut.
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Situation of Lebanon people:
Words of affected people:
"We were at home, we heard a sound like fireworks, we thought it was a container in the port and that was on fire, a few seconds later we were flying through the air".
Beirut's hospitals were overwhelmed by casualties in need of urgent treatment ,we have at least 300 wounded in the hospital right now we have six operating suites that are still operating right now and this keeps filling up by another group that needs attention. we have about four to five in intensive care we have three that arrive dead, Every one of our crew-doctors and nurses are operating even in administration everyone is working, we have a lot of damage as you can see all the ceilings have collapsed at the entrance and the glass windows of patients rooms were embattled.
The medics were struggled to help the injured distraught locals.
Lebanon doctor's speech:
Turmoil boris johnson tweeted that the UK is ready to provide support in any way. Affected lebanon's president has announced to release 100 billion lira or 50.5 million pounds of emergency funds.
Officials say that the investigation is ignited in the meantime. Authorities say those responsible will face the maximum possible punishment. Dr.ferris abiad who's the head of the rafiq career hospital in beirut, the largest public hospital in lebanon, Turmoil boris johnson said that "we have received almost 200 casualties some of them arrived dead and we have admitted more than 22 cases to our intensive care units and what sort of injuries have people been suffering well initially most of the people who were coming and they were coming in tens were from glass injuries or people being you know just thrown off up in the air from the impact of the blast then later the ambulances started arriving from the blast site and they were bringing the people who have been more serious injuries", Now have about 18 patients in their critical units and they still have some patients in the emergency room they are waiting to see whether they can find places for them in their hospital otherwise patients to be transferred to other hospitals. He also added saying that "casualties that you've seen yesterday was unprecedented ,we haven't seen that even in times of the civil war and I think that all the hospitals were stretched their rooms and added patients but some hospitals were damaged and had to be evacuated, so we were actually receiving both casualties and patients being evacuated from other hospitals.
A lot of the buildings that are in the vicinity of the blasts".
Situation in beirut lebanon:
The main reason of the explosion is the initial flame that caused the explosion, the government has opened a big investigation and they're expecting some outcome in 48 hours. The main port that import and export material to lebanon, which relies heavily almost 90 percent of its consumption is imported and now the port is out of function completely and around the port there is a lavish downtown ,beirut. There are almost 80 people who died so far. The hospitals are rushing and they're out of capacity and with the economy crisis here in lebanon they'll have to rely on international aid to come and help them out otherwise they won't be able to stand on their feet with this situation.
People who are reading this article please pray for them to get well soon
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