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Beirut port blast: six months on

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Beirut, Feb 4 (EFE), (Camera: Wael Hamzeh).- Six months after the Beirut Port explosion, the Lebanese authorities began to figure out plans for the future of ground zero of the blast that left over 200 dead and 6,500 injured.The rebuilding of the port, where there is still a large hole caused by August 4 explosion and only one building erected, will cost between $425 and $520 million, according to the World Bank estimations.Before the blast, there was a “master plan” to remodel the facilities, the Port Director Bassem Kaissi told Efe. Those plans are being “reevaluated” in the wake of the explosion.DRONE FOOTAGE OF BEIRUT PORT.

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