{"id":103261,"date":"2020-08-04T17:15:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T21:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=103261"},"modified":"2020-08-04T17:15:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T21:15:03","slug":"massive-explosion-shakes-lebanons-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103261","title":{"rendered":"Massive explosion shakes Lebanon&#8217;s capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_103262\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103262\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-103262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/beruit-explosion-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/beruit-explosion-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/beruit-explosion-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/beruit-explosion-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/beruit-explosion.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke rises after an explosion in Beirut, Lebanon August 4, 2020, in this picture obtained from a social media video.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two large explosions rocked the Lebanese capital of Beirut Tuesday evening local time, shattering windows in surrounding neighborhoods, destroying nearby buildings and wounding thousands of people. At least 50 people have been killed and more than 3,000 injured, Lebanese Health Minister Hassan Hamad told local media.<\/p>\n<p>Residents have posted graphic photos and videos to social media showing a mushroom-like cloud and enormous smoke plumes rising above the city from Beirut\u2019s port area. While the first explosion appears to have come from a warehouse at the port, the cause of the blasts are not yet clear, and no one has claimed responsibility.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oKFupx9x0-k\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>ChipNASA sends.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"headline\">Beirut blast: at least 60 dead, thousands injured<\/h3>\n<p><ins datetime=\"2020-08-04T21:03:53+00:00\"><strong>The blast shattered windows and sent thick smoke billowing from the city center<\/strong><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>By Danielle Wallace, Bradford Betz<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"speakable\">A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/disasters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">massive explosion<\/a>\u00a0shook\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/middle-east\/lebanon\">Beirut<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday, killing at least 60 people and injuring thousands of others while flattening much of the port, damaging buildings across the capital, and sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container desktop\">\n<div id=\"desktop_desk-art-world-lb2\" class=\"ad gam\" data-iu=\"lb2\" data-ad-size=\"728x90,300x250,320x50,300x50,1x1,fluid\" data-ad-lz=\"1\" data-hot-unit=\"\">The cause of the explosion remains unclear. The Lebanese Red Cross tweeted that more than 30 teams were responding to the scene of the blast via ambulances.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div data-iu=\"lb2\" data-ad-size=\"728x90,300x250,320x50,300x50,1x1,fluid\" data-ad-lz=\"1\" data-hot-unit=\"\">\n<blockquote><p>The health minister said at least 60 people were killed and over 3,000 were injured.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanese Red Cross official Georges Kettaneh said the injured were being taken to hospitals outside the capital because facilities there were at capacity. He put the number of casualties in the hundreds but said he did not have exact figures on dead or injured.<\/p>\n<p>Abbas Ibrahim, chief of Lebanese General Security, said the explosion\u00a0might have been caused by highly explosive material that was confiscated from a ship some time ago and stored at the port. Local television channel LBC said the material was sodium nitrate.<\/p>\n<p>The blast was stunning even for a city that has seen civil war, suicide bombings and bombardment by Israel. It could be heard and felt as far away as Cyprus, more than 180 miles across the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a real horror show. I haven&#8217;t seen anything like that since the days of the (civil) war,&#8221; said Marwan Ramadan, who was about 550 yards from the port and was knocked off his feet by the force of the explosion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/explosion-lebanon-capital-beirut\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/explosion-lebanon-capital-beirut<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Chip.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two large explosions rocked the Lebanese capital of Beirut Tuesday evening local time, shattering windows in &hellip; <a title=\"Massive explosion shakes Lebanon&#8217;s capital\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103261\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Massive explosion shakes Lebanon&#8217;s capital<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,332,387],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beirut","category-guest-post","category-international-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103279,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103261\/revisions\/103279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}