Beirut explosion: Rescuers find more bodies as death toll rises to at least 149

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The government has launched an investigation as it has come under mounting criticism, with many Lebanese blaming the catastrophe on negligence and corruption.

Search and rescue teams have been sent from several countries to help locate survivors of the blast. Among those located in the rubble near the grain silo was Joe Akiki, a 23-year-old port worker who had been missing since the explosion.

A team of 55 French rescuers that began work Thursday has found four bodies, according to Col. Tissier Vincent, the head of the mission. Lebanese firefighters are also working at the demolished port, where bulldozers and excavators were churning through the rubble. Dozens of people are still missing, and at the entrance to the port a family waited for news of a relative.

Some 300,000 people – more than 12% of Beirut’s population – are unable to return to their homes because of the explosion, which blew out doors and windows across the city and left many buildings uninhabitable. Officials have estimated losses at $10 billion to $15 billion. Damaged hospitals, already strained by the coronavirus pandemic, are still struggling to deal with the wounded.

 

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Lebanon grain, wheat was already in shortage that forces the government to try for a $55 billion loan. Thus was clearly hizbulla within the equivalent of BlM or antifa bombing USA wheat grain industry to try and destabilize gov for a take over.

So bad 😭 😭 😭 I think it really need a proper investigation

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