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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
Images of the Beirut port on the morning of the one year anniversary of the deadly blast that rocked the Lebanese capital and levelled entire neighbourhoods, killed more than 200 people, wounded 6,500 others and pummelled the lives of survivors. IMAGES
Beirut, Feb 4 (EFE), (Camera: Nabil Mounzer).- 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.FOOTAGE OF BEIRUT'S PORT AREA.
Gigantic plumes of thick black smoke billow from a huge fire that erupted at Beirut port, weeks after a deadly blast caused by hundreds of tonnes of ammonium nitrate ripped through the capital. IMAGES
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