Rescue teams kept up their search for survivors in Beirut Saturday even as hopes raised by sensor readings of a pulse beneath the rubble of last month's blast began to fade.
Rescue teams kept up their search for survivors in Beirut Saturday even as hopes raised by sensor readings of a pulse beneath the rubble of last month's blast began to fade.killed at least 191 people, making it Lebanon's deadliest peacetime disaster. One month on, seven people are still listed as missing.
On Wednesday night, a sniffer dog deployed by Chilean rescuers detected a scent beneath a collapsed building in the heavily damaged Gemmayzeh neighbourhood adjacent to the port.and, a full month after the blast, rescue teams took up the search.Chilean and Lebanese rescue workers search in the rubble of a building that collapsed in last month's explosion.
"We are not leaving the site until we've finished going through the rubble, even if a new building collapse threatens," said civil defence officer Qassem Khater.5,000 candles lit in Beirut in memory of port blast victims
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