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Clashes erupt between Lebanese protesters and security forces in downtown Beirut as the country marks the first anniversary of the port blast that ravaged the city and killed more than 200 people. Dozens were injured when Lebanese police clashed with protesters demanding accountability for last year's Beirut port explosion. IMAGES
Lebanese march towards Beirut's port to mark a year since a cataclysmic explosion ravaged the city, protesting impunity over the country's worst peacetime disaster at a time when its economy was already in tatters. IMAGES
Rescue workers dig through rubble in a wrecked district of Lebanon's capital Beirut in search of possible survivors from a mega-blast at the adjacent port one month ago, after scanners detected a pulse. IMAGES
Beirut, Aug 5 (EFE), (Camera: Wael Hamzeh).- Rescue workers continue searching for more than a hundred people who are missing after a massive explosion hit the port area of Beirut on Tuesday.According to media reports, at least 100 people were killed and more than 4,000 were injured after an explosion, caused by over 2,500 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse.FOOTAGE OF THE AREA WHERE THE EXPLOSION TOOK PLACE.
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The UN human rights chief Volker Türk decries the lack of accountability for the 2020 Beirut port blast, urging an international probe into the massive explosion that destroyed swathes of the city, in a speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council. "It may therefore be time to consider an international fact-finding mission to look into human rights violations related to this tragedy," says Volker Türk. SOUNDBITE
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