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Heavy fighting claimed at least six lives and left dozens wounded in Lebanon's capital as an escalation of tensions around last year's massive portside explosion turned parts of Beirut into a war-zone. The army deployed tanks and troops to quell street battles that sparked memories of the 1975-1990 civil war for a city already traumatised by last year's blast disaster and Lebanon's worst-ever economic crisis.
Families of the victims of the deadly 2020 Beirut port explosion rallied Thursday to support the judge who has resumed work on the politically-charged case in a daring challenge Lebanon's entrenched ruling elite.
At least five people have been shot dead in Beirut during a demonstration against the judge investigating last year's deadly port explosion.
Several more grain silos damaged by the 2020 Beirut port explosion collapsed Thursday, as hundreds marched toward them to mark the second anniversary of the disaster. The August 4, 2020 mega-blast killed more than 200 people and destroyed swathes of the Lebanese capital, after a stockpile of haphazardly stored ammonium nitrate fertiliser caught fire at the port. NGOs urged the UN Human Rights Council to launch an international investigation into the deadly Beirut port blast. FRANCE 24's Armen Georgian gives his analysis.
Protesters in Beirut were met with tear gas as they threw stones towards security forces near parliament on August 4, as civil unrest marked the first anniversary of the catastrophic Beirut port blast.
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