Rescuers resumed a search for a possible survivor under the rubble in Beirut, buoyed by faint hopes of a miracle a month after a monster blast ripped through the city's port.
"We had to dig three tunnels to reach the spot where the pulse was detected," he added.
"After removing the big chunks, we scanned again for heartbeats or respiration, it showed low beat/respiration" levels of seven per minute, he said."The reading before was about 16 to 18." The area being excavated was among the hardest hit by the blast that was so powerful it was heard in Cyprus, some 240 kilometres away.
After detecting a pulse on Thursday, Lebanese rescuers teamed up with the Chileans to find survivors. The army said Friday the efforts had been halted because hunks of the building's wall could fall on rescuers."There is a heart beating in Mar Mikhail, and there are heartless officials who decided to stop the rescue operation," activist Zahia Awad tweeted.As well as killing more than 190 people, the explosion injured at least 6,500 and left 300,000 homeless.
At the Beirut port, relatives of the deceased laid white flowers near a small stone monument bearing the names of all those killed in the blast.
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