Джерело:
The Guardian newspaper: International | guardian.co.uk
Дата публікації:
04/08/2021 07:00
Постійна адреса новини:
http://www.vsinovyny.com/8103258
A year on from Beirut explosion, scars and questions remain
04/08/2021 07:00 // The Guardian newspaper: International | guardian.co.uk
Lebanese capital remains a shell of a city as efforts to find who is to blame for tragedy have made little progress
When his workplace blew to pieces, dockworker Yusuf Shehadi was waiting to hear back from colleagues who had scrambled to help firefighters extinguish a blaze in the port of Beirut. The fire was bad and getting worse, they told him in their last conversation before a giant explosion killed them, and 210 others, a year ago today.
The catastrophic blast laid to ruin the place Shehadi had worked for a decade. And he immediately knew its cause. “I had taken the nitrate from the dock to the hangar six years earlier,” he said of the massive stockpile of military-grade fertiliser that he had helped move from a freighter to a nearby hangar in 2014.
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