{"id":155157,"date":"2020-08-05T04:02:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T02:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/08\/05\/beirut-explosion-at-least-78-dead-and-4000-wounded-says-lebanon-health-ministry-live-updates\/"},"modified":"2020-08-05T04:02:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T02:02:39","slug":"beirut-explosion-at-least-78-dead-and-4000-wounded-says-lebanon-health-ministry-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=155157","title":{"rendered":"Beirut explosion: at least 78 dead and 4,000 wounded, says Lebanon health ministry \u2013 live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interior minister says ammonium nitrate likely caused at least one explosion amid reports hospitals too damaged to treat patientsFull report: huge explosion in Beirut\u2018We\u2019re cursed\u2019: shock and despair as explosion devastates cityBeirut explosion \u2013 in pictures 3.02am BST Here is our full explainer on what ammonium nitrate is: Lebanon\u2019s prime minister, Hassan Diab, said 2,700 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded after lying unsecured in a warehouse for six years, tallying with reports that a ship carrying a similar quantity of the chemical had unloaded its cargo at the port in 2013. It remains unclear what caused the chemical to ignite. Related: Ammonium nitrate: what is the chemical blamed for blast in Lebanese capital? 2.53am BST Here is another angle of the explosion, in a video taken from the top of the hotel Le Gray. The empty lot seen in the video was in recent months the site of mass protests against the failing economy \u2013 it leads onto Lebanon\u2019s Martyr\u2019s Square: A video I received on WhatsApp of the scalr of explosion in #Beirut, confirming it was at the port. pic.twitter.com\/bIkcyfsi0o Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/aug\/04\/beirut-explosion-huge-blast-port-lebanon-capital\" target=\"_blank\">Beirut explosion: at least 78 dead and 4,000 wounded, says Lebanon health ministry \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interior minister says ammonium nitrate likely caused at least one explosion amid reports hospitals too damaged to treat patientsFull report: huge explosion in Beirut\u2018We\u2019re cursed\u2019: shock and despair as explosion devastates cityBeirut explosion \u2013 in pictures 3.02am BST Here is our full explainer on what ammonium nitrate is: Lebanon\u2019s prime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}