Baby George’s birth during Beirut blast a ’light in the darkness’

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Stepping into the delivery room, Edmond Khnaisser meant to capture their son's first moments on camera. Instead, he recorded the instant the biggest blast in Lebanon's history sent whole windows crashing onto his wife's hospital bed.

Beirut - Stepping into the delivery room where his wife Emmanuelle was about to give birth, Edmond Khnaisser meant to capture their son's first moments on camera.

Brushing off blood and shattered glass, medical staff instinctively carried Emmanuelle into the corridor, fearing another explosion could follow."He has to come to life and I have to be very strong," she told herself. But it was too late and the nurse died. Yacoub hurried back to Emmanuelle straight away to help her give birth, along with Professor Elie Anastasiades and a team of medics.

Running back and forth between his wife and his mother, Khnaisser said he had one objective in mind, to get his new son George to safety.

 

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