By AFP More by this AuthorBeirutThe FBI will join investigators probing the cause of the huge port blast that destroyed swathes of Beirut, the top career diplomat at the US State Department said Thursday. A judicial official said Wednesday that the prosecution would question several ministers and former ministers over the disaster. International probeAdvertisementWorld leaders, international organisations and a seething Lebanese public have pressed for an international probe, but President Michel Aoun has said that calls for such an investigation are a "waste of time." Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz said last week that French citizens were injured in the blast and prosecutors had opened a probe into "negligent injury" using their jurisdiction to investigate acts committed abroad. Many want heads to roll over the tragedy they see as shocking proof of the rot at the core of their political system.

Source: Daily Nation August 13, 2020 17:20 UTC