The investigation into beiruts devastating explosion reportedly has led to the detention of 16 port employees and cnn has learned the Bank Accounts belonging to both the port director and the customs director have been frozen. Nearly 3,000 tons of hazardous Ammonium Nitrate stored in the port warehouse is the suspected source of the blast. Shock has quickly turned to outrage towards the government. Documents show officials were warned repeatedly about the hazardous stockpile but nothing was ever done. Cnns jomana karachi is joining us from istanbul. So many elements to this horrific story. Whats the latest . Reporter kim, as you mentioned there, the focus, of course, is that shipment of Ammonium Nitrate. Nearly 3,000 metric tons of it that sat in the beirut port for more than six years. Now we know, we believe how it ended up there, it was a shipment headed to mozambique. Financial disputes on the port. It ended up stopping in beirut, confiscated. The beirut port authorities confiscate
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