BBCNEWS BBC World News August 5, 2020
From the last survivors. A desperate search is continuing in beirut for more than a hundred people still missing after a huge explosion devastated the port. 300,000 people have been displaced. Its thought the explosion was caused by a fire that ignited piles of Ammonium Nitrate stored unsafely. Quentin sommerville has the latest. In a country long battered by shock, a fresh, unnatural disaster has seized lebanon. The fires burned long here at the port. The cause, a powder keg of unstable chemicals, left to rot in the very heart of beirut. The shock could be felt in cyprus, syria and israel. Th...