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Smoke rises after an explosion the day before at the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, August 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) The judge investigating last year’s massive explosion at Beirut’s port on Tuesday requested that countries with satellites stationed over Lebanon provide authorities with images that could help their investigation, the state news agency reported.
National News Agency did not name the countries that Judge Tarek Bitar asked for images of the port before, during and after the blast.
Nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate a highly explosive material used in fertilizers had been improperly stored in the port for years. The catastrophic blast on August 4 killed 211 people and injured more than 6,000, devastating nearby neighborhoods.
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Lebanon requests satellite images for site of Beirut blast
Lebanon s state news agency says the judge investigating last yearâs massive explosion in Beirutâs port has sent requests to countries that have satellites stationed over tiny Lebanon to provide images from that time that could help the investigation
By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press
May 4, 2021, 3:45 PM
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BEIRUT The judge investigating last yearâs massive explosion at Beirutâs port on Tuesday requested that countries with satellites stationed over Lebanon provide authorities with images that could help their investigation, the state news agency reported.
BEIRUT The judge investigating last year’s massive explosion at Beirut’s port has requested that countries with satellites stationed over Lebanon provide authorities with images that could help their investigation, the state news agency reports.
National News Agency doesn’t name the countries that Judge Tarek Bitar asked for images of the port before, during and after the blast.
Nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate a highly explosive material used in fertilizers had been improperly stored in the port for years. The catastrophic blast on August 4 killed 211 people and injured more than 6,000, devastating nearby neighborhoods.
Days after the explosion, President Michel Aoun said he had asked France, which has close ties to its former colony, for satellite images from the time to see if they showed any planes or missiles. In the immediate aftermath of the blast, authorities did not rule out an attack, though no evidence emerged to suggest it.
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Activists gather two days after the killing of prominent Hezbollah critic Lokman Slim demanding a transparent investigation into the crime, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon February 6, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Around a hundred activists rallied in downtown Beirut on Saturday to protest the killing of prominent Hezbollah critic Lokman Slim and to demand a transparent investigation.
Slim, a Shi’ite publisher in his late fifties, ran a research centre, made documentaries with his wife and led efforts to build an archive on Lebanon’s 1975-1990 sectarian civil war.
He was a vocal critic of what he described as armed group Hezbollah’s intimidation tactics and attempts to monopolise Lebanese politics.