Beirut
Lebanon, August 4, 2020, 6:07 p.m.
Two huge explosions at the port of Beirut rock the country.
Like many Lebanese, Elie Hasrouty, that day visiting his parents' home village 30 km from the capital, initially believed in a bombing.
More than a month later, people still tell each other what they were doing at that precise moment, as if to better heal wounds still open after the explosion of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate near residential areas.
Elie Hasrouty, 35, immediately jumped in his car to join his family living in a suburb near the capital.
Optimistic, he thinks she's safe.
“I didn't think we could be affected.
We have always been spared from wars and explosions in the country ”,
he recalls.
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En route, the telecommunications engineer learns that his father, Ghassan, operations manager of the port's grain elevators, had planned to sleep in his office.
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