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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
Images of the site of the August 4, 2020 blast at the Beirut port as Lebanon's marks three years since one of history's biggest non-nuclear explosions rocked the Lebanese capital. Still nobody has been held to account as political and legal pressures suspend the investigation. IMAGES
Eight more grain silos collapse at Beirut's port after succumbing to damage from the devastating 2020 explosion -- the third major collapse in a month. A cloud of dust rose over the port after the collapse, which brought down the last of the northern block of silos that was more heavily damaged in the blast, and where a fire had been burning since July. IMAGES TO COMPLETE: VIDI32GX93J_EN
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
Relatives of Beirut port blast victims march towards the blast site, to mark two years since the massive dockside explosion ripped through the Lebanese capital. IMAGES
Images of the aftermath following the collapse of parts of Beirut's grain silos. The collapse comes just days before the second anniversary of a catastrophic explosion at the Lebanese capital's port that ravaged the stores and parts of the city. IMAGES
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