Lebanese customs chief arrested over Beirut blast:
The head of Lebanon’s customs authority was formally arrested on Monday after being questioned over the massive explosion in Beirut earlier this month, the state-run National News Agency reported.
Much more at the link.
I’m not surprised they asked French investigators to help out, I am surprised they asked for the US’s FBI as well.
Yes, this was in a live interview with BBC Arabic. Here is the video.
Let’s not forget the four-legged survivors.
Last weekend, I heard that some of their machinery may have detected life in a building. Has anyone heard anything more about that?
Okay, my personal guess is that if anything was alive in a collapsed building, it was probably a dog that moved in after the explosion.
One year later…
The classic multi-kiloton pile of ammonium nitrate! Note, the one in Beirut was hardly the only such pile in the world; it just happened to be the one to explode that day. Not too surprisingly, no one has yet been held accountable.
Just wanted to remind that we are coming up on the 100-year anniversary of the BASF explosion:
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This article
says no one has been held accountable for the ~1 kt explosion. Happy anniversary!