At Beirut's 'ground zero', race to find survivors

BEYROUTH, LEBANON -- Ankle-deep in corn spilling from a huge gutted silo, rescuers guide an excavator to clear access to a room where they believe Beirut port employees could still be alive.

Beirut's "ground zero", a term describing the point closest to a detonation that was first used for the 1945 atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, filled up with teams working together in a desperate push to find survivors. The death toll for the disaster, one of the worst of its kind in modern history, stood at 154 on Friday but dozens of people were still reported missing.

"The four bodies we uncovered in the search area... were found next to a safety exit staircase at the foot of the silos," Andrea explained.Thousands of tonnes of corn, wheat and barley scattered from the silos by the explosion carpeted the port car parks and quays.Rescuers stood silently above a gap in the ground as a sniffer dog paced around a forest of mangled containers thrown around the port like sugar cubes.

"It looks so quiet, but bad quiet. Something in this city died and will not rise again," said one of them, standing with his arms akimbo and his gaze lost in the destruction before him.

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