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Tuesday, August 4, 2020
From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Al-Manar TV now reporting ‘a number of deaths’ in the explosion in Beirut
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAl-Manar TV is now reporting “a number of deaths” in the explosion in Beirut.
It does not say how many were killed.
A security source tells AFP two explosions shook the port area of the city, leaving dozens wounded.
An AFP correspondent at the scene says every shop in the Hamra commercial district sustained damage, with entire shopfronts destroyed, windows shattered and many cars wrecked.
Injured people are walking in the street, while outside the Clemenceau Medical Center, dozens of wounded people, many covered in blood, rush to be admitted to the center, including children.
Destroyed cars were abandoned in the street with their airbags inflated.
— with AFP
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