In Beirut
In the aftermath of the double explosion that blew through the port of Beirut, the Lebanese, in shock, cleaned up the damage and counted their dead on Wednesday. The human toll is very heavy: at least 113 dead and 4,000 injured. “It's the worst thing I have ever experienced,” says the owner of an electronics store near Gemmayze, an upscale part of the city, drinking his coffee. "Worse than the war of 2006 (between Hezbollah and Israel, editor's note), worse than the assassination of (Rafic) Hariri" , who died of a bomb attack in 2005. "I saw on television that my store was destroyed. I don't have the courage to go and inspect the damage ”,he recounts, a smile on his face under his mask in an obvious effort to keep his cool. “The government has put forward the thesis of an ammonium nitrate explosion. I don't know what to believe. There are so many rumors. ”
The windows of thousands of apartments were blown for miles around the site of the explosion, transforming
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