Country that it appears the blast was caused by a highly explosive material and clearly it was highly explosive material because the lebanese capital shook. Buildings. Kilometers away 3rd glass shattered people in the streets they were crying. There was really panic everywhere it was very difficult to move from one area of the capitol to another because everybody just wanted to get home as quickly as possible because they did not know what happened and they were worried that there would be further explosions 1 so beirut was rocked by a massive explosion just over 2 hours ago Lebanese Security saying highly explosive material in a warehouse in beirut port confiscated material in the words of the head of Lebanese Security which is going to really raise a lot of questions authorities will have to answer a lot of questions on what this material was doing at beirut ports how was it stored at the root ports and whether or not it was stored in a safe manner clearly what we saw today that it w