Beirut, a broken city

In Beirut,

Shards of glass, smashed cars, collapsed buildings… Tuesday evening, Beirut was a shattered city. Shaped like an orange and gray mushroom, the explosion, which according to the authorities was caused by 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrates stored for reasons still unclear in the port, blew windows from miles away. round, torn from trees, buried bodies under the rubble. The provisional toll of 73 dead and 3,700 injured will no doubt increase in the coming days.

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The city center, located a few hundred meters from the port, was hit hard, including the imposing building of the prestigious local newspaper Annahar . Mohamed, an employee of the parking space in the Place des Martyrs, rushed to help. “I helped thirteen injured people. The false ceiling fell on the face of one of them. It was horrible to watch, ” he recalls.

Dazed, the Beirutis left their homes after the explosion, sometimes still in their pajamas and

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