(Bloomberg) — Army personnel and rescue workers sifted through mountains of rubble from a massive explosion that flattened Lebanon's main port, looking for survivors from a blast that roared through the capital, Beirut, killing at least 100 people and wounding thousands more.
As authorities pieced together the chain of events leading up to the tragedy on Aug. 4, TV network LBCI reported that all port officials had been placed under house arrest. Officials have blamed highly explosive ammonium nitrate equivalent to 1,800 tons of TNT that had been stored at the port for years, without saying what triggered the blast.
The government has appealed to other countries for emergency aid as concerns mounted over food supply in the import-dependent nation.
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