The Beirut explosion was 6 years in the making, and hit a country on its knees.
It stopped off in Beirut but was impounded for safety reasons because it was overloaded and listing, Prokoshev said.The ship's Russian owner, Igor Grechushkin, abandoned the ship, refusing to pay docking fees, fines, and even salaries and food for the crew, according to the captain and Natalia Sokolova, a representative for the Seafarers Union of Russia, which represented the crew during its dispute with the owner at the time.The freighter Rhosus in Istanbul's harbor in 2010.
Beirut Governor Marwan Abboud backed up this account, telling the country's LBCI television station that the chemical was kept in the port under"judicial order" and that"there was nobody who took the responsibility to make a decision to remove it."The presidency tweeted that anyone who"managed the affairs" of the chemical, guarded it or"examined its file" since June 2014 would be put under house arrest.
It is currently suffering its worst economic crisis in its modern history, with prices, unemployment and hunger skyrocketing and its currency, the lira, plummeting.have called for a change to what they see as decades of corrupt leadership, with sectarian politics and patronage networks enriching the elite and creating grave inequality. Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy officially designated a terrorist organization by the U.S., is a political group with unrivaled influence in the government.
Tuesday's explosion ripped through a city on its knees. Not only has it wrought widespread damage, it has cripped the country's main port and immolated a month of grain reserves.
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