Rescue workers digging through the rubble of a Beirut building for the third day say there is no longer hope of finding someone alive more than a month after a massive port explosion shattered Lebanon's capital.
Sensors had detected signs of breathing and heat but they were from rescuers already insideThe blast last month killed about 190 people and injured 6,000 more
About 50 rescue workers and volunteers, including a specialist team from Chile, had worked for three days to locate possible survivors"Technically speaking, there are no signs of life," Francisco Lermanda, the head of volunteer rescue group Topos Chile, said in a news conference on Saturday evening, adding that rescuers had combed 95 per cent of the building.
The signs of life detected in the past two days, Mr Lermanda said, were breaths of fellow rescuers already inside the building picked up by their sensitive equipment."We never stop with even 1 per cent of hope," Mr Lermanda said, of finding a body.
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