Lebanese President Michel Aoun rejects calls for a global investigation into the blast at Beirut's port as residents look to rebuild shattered homes and lives
At the port, reduced to an enormous scrapyard, excavators removed mangled shipping containers to clear a path for rescuers.Beirut has received a stream ofsince the blast, with the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, set to visit the ravaged capital on Saturday.
The World Food Programme promised food to affected families and wheat imports to replace lost stocks from the port's disembowelled silos.100,000 children homeless Two days after the blast, Lebanese were flocking to a 20-tent Russian field hospital newly established in the capital's largest sport stadium.
Dozens more were being interrogated by Lebanon's military court, which is focusing on administrative and security officials at the port as well as government authorities who may have ignored warnings about explosive materials.Lebanon's central bank also ordered asset freezes for seven port and customs officials, an official and a banking source said.
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