After Beirut blast claims over 100 lives, a search for answers & survivors

Explosion caused by the detonation of 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse, say officials

Lebanese rescue workers dug through the mangled wreckage of buildings on Wednesday looking for survivors after a massive warehouse explosion sent a devastating blast wave across Beirut, killing at least 100 people and injuring nearly 4,000.
 

Officials said the toll was expected to rise after Tuesday’s blast at port warehouses that stored highly explosive material. The blast was the most powerful ever to rip through Beirut, a city still scarred by civil war three decades ago and reeling from an economic meltdown and a surge in coronavirus infections.
 

It sent a mushroom cloud into the sky and rattled windows on