Powerful Explosion in Beirut Kills at Least 70, Injures Thousands: Live Updates – By Ben Hubbard and Maria Abi-Habib (The New York Times) / Aug 4 2020
At least 70 people were killed and 3,700 injured, the health ministry said.
Lebanon’s health ministry said that at least 70 people had died and 3,700 suffered injuries in the explosions and fire that shook Beirut on Tuesday.
The numbers climbed steadily through the day, and with the wounded still streaming into hospitals and the search for missing people underway, they were likely to go higher still.
The secretary-general of the Kataeb political party, Nizar Najarian, was killed in the blast, and among those injured was Kamal Hayek, the chairman of the state-owned electricity company, who was in critical condition, the news agency reported.
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