{"id":325184,"date":"2020-08-05T03:52:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T03:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325184"},"modified":"2020-08-05T03:52:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T03:52:47","slug":"more-than-70-killed-thousands-wounded-in-huge-explosion-in-lebanons-capital-beirut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/more-than-70-killed-thousands-wounded-in-huge-explosion-in-lebanons-capital-beirut\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 70 killed, thousands wounded in huge explosion in Lebanon&#8217;s Capital Beirut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-325185 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/blast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"569\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/blast.jpg 569w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/blast-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/08\/blast-406x420.jpg 406w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/>At least 73 were killed and over 3,700 injured following two enormous explosions that devastated the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The explosion sent shockwaves across the city, causing widespread damage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Lebanon Prime Minister Hassan Diab said that 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded in the Beirut port warehouse. \u201cIt is unacceptable that a shipment of 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate has been present for six years in a warehouse, without taking preventive measures and endangering the safety of citizens,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a video, a column of smoke was seen rising into the sky while distant buidings left shaken, sending a shock wave through the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Michel Aoun called for an emergency cabinet meeting on Wednesday and said a state of emergency should be declared in Beirut for two weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump said that the Lebanon explosion appeared to be a terrible attack.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 73 were killed and over 3,700 injured following two enormous explosions that devastated the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Tuesday. The explosion sent shockwaves across the city, causing widespread damage.\u00a0 Lebanon Prime Minister Hassan Diab said that 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded in the Beirut port warehouse. \u201cIt is unacceptable that a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":325185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[13261,2032],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325186,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325184\/revisions\/325186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/325185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}