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Workers construct a 25-metre-tall steel sculpture dubbed "The Gesture" by Lebanese artist Nadim Karam made from debris from the August 4 blast at Beirut's port. The explosion that thundered through the city levelled entire neighbourhoods, killed more than 200 people, wounded 6,500 others and pummelled the lives of survivors. Beirut is still struggling following the deadly explosion, with the country facing an accelerating financial crisis branded by the World Bank as one of the worst in modern times.
Lebanese artist Sara Abou Mrad uses glass debris from the Beirut port explosion to make man-in-motion-shaped sculptures.
Beirut-based American artist Brady Black memorialises the victims of the deadly August 4 port blast with a series of 204 portraits of those killed by the explosion. The devastating explosion was Lebanon's worst peace-time disaster, disfigured the heart of the capital, and stoked a wave of public anger against the country's ruling elite.
Lebanese demonstrators break into applause as an ambulance siren rings out to mark the moment of the massive port explosion that ripped through the capital Beirut, on the second anniversary of the disaster. IMAGES
Lebanon marked two years Thursday (August 4) since a massive explosion ripped through Beirut -- a grim anniversary marked by angry protests and the dramatic collapse of blast-damaged grain silos in a cloud of dust. FRANCE 24's Charbel Abboud tells us more.
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