BBCNEWS BBC News August 8, 2020
Is in short supply. A new day in the recovery effort at zone one, as they now call the trail of devastation left at the blasts epicentre. Scores of people are still missing, caught in a shockwave powerful enough to pulverise buildings and overturn ships. More pictures have been emerging of the immediate aftermath. Beirut is a city struggling to cope. Like yusuf, who chokes back tears. He was blown across the room in the explosion. Many share his despair, in a city whose new epidemic is homelessness. Translation i saw everything was destroyed, nothing was like it was. The curtains were destroye...