{"id":6543,"date":"2020-08-04T19:46:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T19:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=6543"},"modified":"2020-08-05T17:04:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T17:04:39","slug":"at-least-135-killed-over-5000-injured-as-powerful-explosion-rocks-lebanons-capital-beirut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/at-least-135-killed-over-5000-injured-as-powerful-explosion-rocks-lebanons-capital-beirut\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 135 killed, 5000 injured as powerful explosion rocks Lebanon&#8217;s capital Beirut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Massive explosions that shook Beirut called a &#8220;national disaster akin to Hiroshima&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than 135 people\u00a0were killed and over 5000 reported injured in powerful explosions that rocked the port area of the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday causing widespread damage.<\/p>\n<p>The Lebanese Red Cross also said there are 4,000 casualties due to the explosion, with the number expected to rise.<\/p>\n<p>Beirut City Governor Marwan Aboud said &#8220;Beirut is a disaster city and the scale of the damage is enormous&#8221; and called the blast a &#8220;national disaster akin to Hiroshima.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon&#8217;s Health Minister Hamad Hasan said the explosion caused a &#8220;very high number of injuries&#8221; and extensive damage.<\/p>\n<p>Videos shared online depicted the exact moment of the enormous explosion sending an immense shockwave tearing through downtown neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/FadyRoumieh\/status\/1290672517733064705<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw a fireball and smoke billowing over Beirut. People were screaming and running, bleeding. Balconies were blown off buildings. Glass in high-rise buildings shattered and fell to the street,&#8221; said a Reuters witness.<\/p>\n<p>Some citizens described the blasts as &#8220;apocalypse in Beirut&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Apocalypse in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Beirut?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Beirut<\/a> complete destruction <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/beirutexplosion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#beirutexplosion<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/beirutblast?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#beirutblast<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%81%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u0627\u0646\u0641\u062c\u0627\u0631_\u0628\u064a\u0631\u0648\u062a<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mzExIq2N6u\">pic.twitter.com\/mzExIq2N6u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shada Omar \u0634\u062f\u0627 \u0639\u0645\u0631 (@Shadaomar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shadaomar\/status\/1290710419775029251?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The blast damaged hundreds of homes and blew out windows miles away, with the explosion heard across the city.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Those responsible will pay the price&#8217;: Lebanese PM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lebanon&#8217;s Prime Minister Hassan Diab said that those responsible for would &#8220;pay the price&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I promise you that this catastrophe will not pass without accountability,&#8221; he said in a televised speech. He added that facts about the &#8220;dangerous&#8221; warehouse at the epicenter of the blast will be brought to light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massive explosions that shook Beirut called a &#8220;national disaster akin to Hiroshima&#8221; More than 135 people\u00a0were killed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[214,32,356],"class_list":["post-6543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-bombing","tag-lebanon","tag-middle-east"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Beirut-explosion.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1Hx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6543"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6553,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6543\/revisions\/6553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}