Beirut, Lebanon A massive explosion ripped through central Beirut on Tuesday, injuring hundreds of people and blowing out windows in buildings across the city.
The blast near the port in the Lebanese capital sent up a huge mushroom cloud-shaped shockwave, flipping over cars and damaging buildings miles away. An"uncountable" number of people were wounded by the blast, the state-run National News Agency reported, and footage from the scene captured the injured staggering through streets in the capital. One eyewitness described the scenes as"like an apocalypse."#Beirut #Lebanon 💥💨 pic.twitter.
— Best Tweet August 4, 2020 There were conflicting reports on what caused the explosion, which was initially blamed on a major fire at a warehouse for firecrackers near the port, according to NNA. The director of the general security directorate later said the blast was caused by confiscated"high explosive materials," but did not provide further details. A red cloud hung over the city in the wake of the explosion as firefighting teams rushed to the scene to try to put out the fire.
And realDonaldTrump said it was an attack.. woww thank u president for another miss information
A glory of ashes, for Beirut
Looks like Texas after silos exploded.
Here is some footage that was passed to me. Very scary.
My God this is Absolutely horrifying and unbelievable!! Was this deliberate or an accident?
amazing?
Just came for the conspiracy theory laughs
Prayers for lebanon
Why isn’t this being featured on live CNN TV right now?
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This is such a terrible headline. We’ve seen the explosion, there could be hundreds dead Headline should read: “Large number of people feared dead after massive port explosion”
Oh no😢💔 BeirutBlast
It’s a miracle something like this doesn’t regularly happen in a small country 🇱🇧 bordering both Syria and Israel, with huge Iranian presence in the form of Hezbollah, and plenty of groups of people hating each other. “Hopefully” it’s an accident
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