How seven years of neglect and 13 minutes of chaos destroyed Beirut

  • 📰 The Independent
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 1 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Qulity Score:
  • News: 4%
  • Publisher: 59%

Special report: Speaking to Lebanese port officials, government sources, firefighters and eyewitnesses, and reviewing a dozen documents, Bel Trew, Oliver Carroll, Samira el-Azar and Richard Hall trace the paper trail of negligence and incompetence that led up to the devastating explosion

United Kingdom Headlines News

United Kingdom Latest News, United Kingdom Headlines

The first warning was raised before the cargo was even offloaded in an internal memo dated February 2014 and seen byIn it Colonel Joseph Skaf, head of the Lebanese narcotics control division, warned Beirut’s anti-smuggling department that the material was “highly dangerous and a threat to public safety”.in July 2014 to officials at Beirut port and the ministry of transportation “warning of the dangers of the materials carried on the ship”.

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 80. in UK
 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

How interesting, after the number seven ?

this neglect is not about nitrate, but a message on Hizb groups.

SaleemulHuq It wasn’t neglect!!! It was an attack!!!! It at least that’s what the guy in the White House said.

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Bus crash in Mexico leaves at least 13 passengers dead and 27 injuredAuthorities have told Mexican news outlets that Tuesday morning's accident, which left 13 dead and 27 injured, could have been caused by wet road conditions in the city of Ocoyoacac.
Source: Daily Mail Online - 🏆 135. / 51 Read more »

Girl, 13, having baby with boy, 10, claims hospitals are refusing to see herA RUSSIAN schoolgirl who claimed a ten-year-old boy was the father of her unborn child claims she was refused treatment by at least three maternity hospitals as she prepares to give birth… Yikes. Medival times. Perhaps she shouldn’t tell hospitals that the baby daddy is 10.
Source: TheSun - 🏆 64. / 61 Read more »

Lucy the golden Labrador gives birth to 13 black puppiesIt's one short of the English record. Oh I would love one of them 😍 Apparently the dad wants a DNA test hahaha haha
Source: MetroUK - 🏆 13. / 82 Read more »

Beirut explosion: NASA maps 'devastating result' of Beirut blast in satellite imagesNASA has unveiled satellite data of the deadly Beirut explosion, exposing the extent of damage caused by the blast.
Source: Daily Express - 🏆 26. / 68 Read more »

Where around the world is ammonium nitrate stored?After the Beirut disaster, concerns are being raised about stockpiles of ammonium nitrate in other countries. Jerusalem? I can’t believe that I read the name of one of the most populous city in India in the list OMG . It’s chennai guys India , ammonium nitrate has been dumbed 20km far from a residential area in Chennai. Who knows whether it is for Agriculture or explosion in mining ? Maybe dont share this with the world, you know, just in case Ffs....
Source: BBCNews - 🏆 3. / 97 Read more »

Lebanon's president and PM were warned about chemical danger in BeirutSecurity chiefs wrote a letter on July 20 saying the industrial chemicals which had been idling in a Beirut warehouse since 2013 needed to be secured immediately. Monstrous incompetence with six years history? georgegalloway The shit that these MSM papers come out with us a joke. georgegalloway And they haven’t been warned 7 YEARS AGO...
Source: Daily Mail Online - 🏆 135. / 51 Read more »