Lebanon Investigating Port Officials & Russian Businessman Whose Cargo Of Ammonium Nitrate Blew Up Beirut

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Lebanon has placed every official responsible for the security of Beirut’s port over the last seven years under house arrest as it investigates the massive explosion which has devastated the city.

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The country’s political figures have assured that those responsible for the tragedy would ‘pay the price’, but customs officials have pointed the finger back at them – claiming they were repeatedly warned of the danger but failed to act.

It comes as this photo emerged of the dock’s Warehouse 12 filled with ammonium nitrate – with the highly explosive chemical stored in simple construction sacks with no other protection in place:

The lethal load is said to have been abandoned by Russian businessman Igor Grechushkin in September 2013 before eventually being transferred to the port where it remained for six years. Igor is reported to currently be residing in Limassol, Cyprus, with his wife.

According to MailOnline, Igor’s ship carrying the explosive materials was detained en route from Batumi, in the ex-Soviet republic Georgia, to Mozambique, and never recovered.

Raghida Dergham of the Beirut Institute yesterday said:

Storing Ammonium Nitrate in a civilian port is a crime against humanity that must not go unpunished.

At time of writing the Beirut death toll was at 135 with some 5,000 wounded and dozens still missing. The port of Beirut has also been left looking like it was hit by a damn meteor:

All that death, chaos and destruction not because of an act of war or natural disaster, but because 7 years ago some dodgy Russian businessman was transporting 2,750 tons of a highly dangerous chemical, had it confiscated, declared bankruptcy and fucked off:

Unfortunately the thousands of tons of explosives this guy abandoned were left in the hands of officials who would have been smart enough to realise how dangerous the stuff was, but too incompetent/lazy to safely get rid of it or even put it to good use. And now because of that hundreds of people are dead, thousands are injured, and Beirut is a disaster zone.

The devastation caused by the blast is enough to have people wondering whether Beirut will ever recover. Apparently the economy was already tanking and unemployment was already a huge problem. But there are still scenes coming out of the city that are offering people some hope:

For the victims and their families and the volunteer workers helping out, let’s hope Beirut can recover from this and the pieces of shit responsible face some sort of justice. They had SEVEN YEARS to do something about this and because of their inaction an entire city has been destroyed and thousands of lives are in tatters. Unfuckingreal.

For more footage of the destruction caused in Beirut, click HERE.

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