“There, it really leans, right? And the white smoke that emanates? Not a good sign at all, that.
Naïm Saleh watches in disbelief from the bay windows of her apartment in Gemmayzé the grain silos in the port of Beirut gradually collapsing like in a slow motion film.
It's been three nights now that this young shipping agent gets up in the middle of the night to check that the building is still standing.
His fear: having to leave his apartment urgently so as not to be trapped in a new disaster.
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On the evening of August 4, 2020, these 48 cylinders some fifty meters high spread over three rows, in which the country's strategic grain reserves were stored, absorbed part of the explosion, which killed more than 220 people. and injured 6,500 others.
But, heavily damaged, its northern part threatens to collapse "
in the more or less medium term
", warns a study published in 2021 on behalf of the Swiss engineering company Amann Engineering...
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