“This is very specific behavior of fireworks.”Some of those injured lay on the ground at the port, Associated Press staff at the scene said. Several of Beirut’s hospitals were damaged in the blast. Outside the St. George University Hospital in Beirut’s Achrafieh neighborhood, people with various injuries arrived in ambulances, in cars and on foot. Outside one hospital, Omar Kinno sat on the pavement, holding back tears. Kinno, a Syrian, said one of his sisters was killed when the blast rocked their apartment near the port, and another sister’s neck was broken.

Source: International New York Times August 04, 2020 16:08 UTC