
NEWS
Decimated Beirut port becomes local tourist attraction
16:22 August 17, 2020 AA
The site of the devastating Beirut blast on August 4 has become a local tourist attraction with people posing for photos and talking selfies in front of the destroyed and badly damaged buildings. The explosion of a warehouse in the Lebanese capital filled with nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate claimed more than 170 lives, leaving around 6,000 injured and 300,000 people homeless.