Massive blast rocks Lebanon’s Beirut, at least 10 dead and hundreds injured.
In what seems like a terrorist attack in Beirut, thick smoke covers the city after a huge explosion occurred; the cause of it still not determined.
On Tuesday, Beirut, the capital of Lebanon was rocked by a massive blast that has resulted in 10 causalities, revealed the country’s health minister. The explosion ripped through the city as balconies collapsed, buildings damaged and the glass shattered from the impact of it revealed Reuters. Hundreds have been seriously injured due to the huge blast. The reason for the explosion is still not clear and sources are claiming it as a terrorist attack. The blast occurred in the port area of the capital, where there are warehouses of housing explosives, revealed Lebanon’s state news agency NNA and two security sources. A witness said,” I saw a fireball and smoke hovering over Beirut. People were running and screaming, bleeding. Balconies were blown off buildings, glass in high-rise buildings shattered and fell to the street.”
Hundreds injured and at least 10 dead:
Lebanon’s health minister Hamad Hassan has stated that hundreds were wounded in the powerful explosion. The video of the blast shows smoke billowing from above an area of the port that houses large warehouses before a huge orange explosion occurs and massive dome-shaped blast wave shoots across in all the directions.
The Beirut explosion was felt across the city, reveals Al Jazeera’s journalist:
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr, reporting from Beirut said that she was kilometers away from the blast and that everywhere around her, the glass broke. She further stated that the explosion was felt across the city and chaos has broken out on the streets.
The blast comes ahead of the UN tribunal’s verdict in a trial over the killing of former PM Rafik Hariri in 2005.
