Video since mid-July, a fire broke out in the most damaged part of the grain silos of the port of Beirut. The flames, then the collapse of some of the silos, rekindled the trauma of relatives of victims of the explosion of August 4, 2020.
by (with reuters)
Two years almost day after the explosion which ravaged the port of Beirut and part of the Lebanese capital, the city is again plunged into sorrow and fear. Sunday, July 31, part of the grain silos of the port collapsed in a thick cloud of smoke and dust after being in the grip, for a fortnight, at a fire.
Lebanon had however planned to destroy these silos in April – they could not be emptied of the cereals remaining due to the risk of falling. But the families of the two hundred dead of the explosion of August 4, 2020 opposed it. They wanted these remaining silos to allow the port to be a place of memory so as not to forget the disaster that took place there.