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Lebanon s political and religious Sunni leaders threw their weight behind caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab on Friday, a day after he was charged with criminal negligence over the deadly explosion at Beirut port.
Mr Diab was one of four politicians indicted on Thursday by a judge appointed to investigate the August 4 blast. All four were charged with carelessness and negligence leading to death over the detonation of 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port for six years. It is still unclear what caused the fire that set off the explosion or who owned the chemicals.
The blast killed more than 200 people, injured about 6,500 and destroyed large areas of the capital.