Our Middle East correspondent Bel Trew gives her eyewitness account of how Beirut has been changed irrevocably by the devastating port explosions
Shock and bewilderment is the reaction of a Beirut resident at the scene of Tuesday’s explosion at the port in Lebanon's capital BeirutThe Independent employs reporters around the world to bring you truly independent journalism. To support us, please consider a ramed by the snarls of exposed metal, a woman wearing a medical mask sits on a chair – her mother’s chair, to be precise – looking out to sea.’s ravaged port looks like a broken doll’s house with its front latch off.
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