Beirut’s ground zero: a rip through the heart of an already dying city
‘Do you really think Hiroshima could have been worse than this?’ asked one man on an agonising Lebanese day
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The twisted and mangled heap of steel that used to be Beirut’s port stretched to both horizons; to the left, battered skyscrapers seemed hunched in defeat and an empty highway strewn with wrecked cars led through a heat haze the other way.
A traffic barrier was covered in the bloody handprints of those who had somehow survived the cataclysmic blast and had staggered into the apocalyptic aftermath.
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