Beirut blast: Raw images (+18)
Beirut hospitals . Hundreds of victims.
At least 100 people are dead and thousands are injured after Lebanon’s capital Beirut was rocked by a blast so big it was registered as a 3.3 magnitude earthquake.
The exact cause of the blast is not yet known, but Lebanon’s Prime Minister Hassan Diab said the explosion occurred inside a warehouse that was storing 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate.
Specialists team of the British Sheffield University calculated that the force of the explosion in the port of Beirut on the evening of August 4 was equal to 1-1.5 thousand tons of TNT – this is approximately the equivalent of 1/10 of the explosive power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945.
At the moment, it is known about 149 dead and more than 6,000 injured in the explosion.
