‘Good chance’ of finding Beirut survivors: French rescue team

There is a “good chance” of finding survivors of the Beirut port explosion, especially a group believed to be trapped in a room under the rubble, a French rescuer says.

“We are looking for seven or eight missing people, who could be stuck in a control room buried by the explosion,” says a colonel leading a rescue team that arrived in Lebanon late yesterday.

“We think there is a good chance of finding… people alive,” he tells French President Emmanuel Macron as he surveys the scene of Tuesday’s explosion that killed more than 100 people.

A Lebanese man carries his belongings as he leaves his destroyed house near the scene where an explosion hit the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, seen on August 6, 2020. (Hussein Malla/AP)

— AFP

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