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BEIRUT Lebanon marked two years on Thursday since a massive explosion ripped through Beirut a grim anniversary marked by angry protests and the dramatic collapse of blast-damaged grain silos in a cloud of dust.The 2020 disaster, one of history's biggest non-nuclear explosions, killed more than 200 people and decimated vast areas of the capital after a stockpile of
Several more grain silos damaged by the 2020 Beirut port explosion collapsed Thursday, as hundreds marched toward them to mark the second anniversary of the disaster.AFP correspondents saw parts of the gutted structure fall down while local media said at least four towers had collapsed, only days after a similar incident.Experts had been warning for days that the silos could collapse imminently after recording unprecedented inclination rates.Lama Hashem, a 30-year-old who took part in Thursday's protest march said the incident reignited her blast trauma.