Steph tells how the second explosion felt like it lasted forever.

- It never ended. Walls fell in, things fell from the ceiling.

Then it did not take long before injured people began to show up at the hospital.

- People rode scooters back and forth and left injured. The emergency room was full within half an hour. There is blood everywhere. It looks like a war zone, says Steph.

Ahmad, who lives in western Beirut, says he has never seen anything like it.

- It is impossible to describe how big it was, I have never seen such an explosion. The ground shook, then came the pressure wave, he says.

When SVT reaches Ahmad, he has had time to gather, but the devastation around him after Tuesday's explosions is great.

- There is nothing left, no door, no windows. I was on the seventh floor. At first I thought it was an earthquake.

Ahmad got out of the building, which was full of broken glass. Many had gathered in the streets.

- The sirens are still howling. There is not a building that is not known by it. Pieces of metal fell on the cars, he says.

Maria was high up in a high-rise building and she also says that she first thought it was an earthquake, or a plane attack.

- It was really awful. The whole building shook. When we opened the door, we saw dust and smoke and we did not know where the bang came from, she says in SVT Nyheter's live broadcast.

Maria says she thought the explosion was right next to her building.

- It was such a loud bang. On the lower floors, from floors one to ten, the windows facing the harbor were shattered. The people on those floors ran out and we saw injured. They received help, but there was panic and anxiety and no one knew what had happened, she says.

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