'This is a country that is in a dire situation even before such an extraordinary incident like the one we've seen this evening' Stone_SkyNews says Lebanon was struggling to get medicine into the country, which will be worsened by today's explosion
At least 10 people have been killed in a huge explosion in the Lebanese capital Beirut, officials have said.
Hundreds of people have been hurt and some are still trapped in their homes, the Lebanese Red Cross charity also warned.Footage posted on social media showed the moment a building several storeys high exploded, sending a vast shockwave across the city. Lebanon's internal security chief Abbas Ibrahim said it happened in a building containing highly-explosive materials, according to news agency NNA.Smoke billowed from the city centre
Sky News's Middle East editor Zein Ja'far, who was in downtown Beirut at the time of the explosion on Tuesday afternoon, said the"huge explosion" caused windows to"cave in".
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