Lebanese firefighters extinguished the last flames of the huge fire the day before at the port of Beirut on Friday in the middle of the warehouses blown up by the gigantic explosion of August 4.
The fire started Thursday in a warehouse used by the International Red Cross.
Thousands of food packages (pasta, sugar, tea, lentils and chickpeas…) and half a million liters of oil were stored there.
This food aid was destroyed by flames or was drowned by the thousands of liters of water spilled by firefighters to extinguish the blaze.
"The explosion and fire will undoubtedly have an impact on the ICRC's humanitarian aid, whether in Lebanon or in Syria," warned the Red Cross.
According to the first elements of the government, "repairs" were carried out on the site with an electric saw and "sparks" caused the fire.
VIDEO. Violent fire at the port of Beirut, a month after the terrible explosion
Except that this fire has further stirred up the anger in the population.
The August 4 ammonium nitrate explosion left more than 190 dead and 6,500 injured and devastated entire districts of Beirut.
Since August 4, it is mainly civil society, NGOs and volunteers who have come to the rescue of the affected populations.
The authorities have been criticized for their weak mobilization in the face of this tragedy.
"What happened yesterday is a rehearsal of August 4", launches a fifties adding: "People lived the terror yesterday, they jostled while fleeing".
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The Lebanese Prime Minister designate Moustapha Adib, who is working on the formation of a new government, the previous one having resigned in the wake of the explosion announced on Twitter that he intended to "make accountable" to those responsible.
Not sure that this will be enough to calm the discontent in this country.
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