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Russia ready to help Lebanon investigate explosion in port of Beirut

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Russia ready to help Lebanon investigate explosion in port of Beirut


29.10.2021

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Russia is ready to help the Lebanese authorities investigate the explosion that occurred in the port of Beirut more than a year ago, RIA Novosti reports. 

On October 29, Lebanese President Michel Aoun officially appealed to the Russian embassador, Alexander Rudakov, with a request to provide satellite images of the Beirut port at the time of the explosion.

On the evening of August 4, 2020, about 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded near the seaport in Beirut. The explosive was confiscated by customs a few years ago. The blast wave destroyed and damaged hundreds of buildings, cars, houses, the city infrastructure. Hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless. Almost 200 people died, more than 6,000 residents of the city were injured. 

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