A rescue team has reportedly detected movement under a destroyed building in Beirut, one month after the blast killed about 190 people and injured 6000.
Rescue workers in Lebanon have reportedly detected signs of life in the rubble of a building in a residential area of Beirut, Lebanon that collapsed after a huge explosion at a nearby port.
"These along with the temperature sensor means there is a possibility of life," rescue worker Eddy Bitar told reporters at the scene.After several hours of digging through rubble, however, the operation was halted because the building was deemed too unsafe. The team of rescue workers included volunteers who came from Chile, as well as Lebanese volunteers and members of the civil defence.
Army engineers were"dealing with it," according to an army statement carried by the state news agency NNA.The authorities said it was caused by about 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate that had been stacked in unsafe conditions in a port warehouse for years.Lebanon's government quit following widespread anger as the blast compounded public dismay at the country's economic crisis.
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