Arrest warrants have been issued for the 25 suspects prosecuted in the Beirut port explosion, a Lebanese judicial source told AFP on Tuesday (September 1), four weeks after the tragedy.
Judicial authorities had already issued arrest warrants for 21 suspects in the August 4 explosion, which left at least 188 dead, more than 6,500 injured and devastated entire neighborhoods of the capital.
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On Tuesday, the investigating judge in charge of the investigation, Fadi Sawan, issued warrants for the arrest of four new suspects after their questioning, according to a judicial source.
They are the head of the military intelligence services at the port, a State Security officer, and two members of the General Security, said this source.
The gigantic explosion that shook the Lebanese capital had been blamed by the authorities for the storage for six years without precautionary measures of a huge amount of ammonium nitrate in a warehouse at the port of Beirut.
The circumstances of the explosion, however, are still not known.
According to security sources, welding work at the warehouse caused a fire that caused the explosion.