A little over 6 pm on the 4th (local time), when dinner just started, dark gray smoke began to bloom in the port of the capital of Lebanon, Beirut.

If you look at the video distributed by Social Network Service (SNS), a flash from a warehouse in the port or the smoke from here flashed like a firecracker.

This fire, which looked like an ordinary fire, ran another warehouse right next to it, and the smoke changed from gray to dark red and burst with a huge explosion.

As the atomic bomb exploded, a spherical white cloud swelled up in an instant, soared into the sky in a mushroom shape, and the shockwaves of the explosion swallowed downtown Beirut at high speed.


It was a scene that reminded us that a large amount of flammable materials with strong explosive properties were stored in the warehouse.


Local media urged the truth to find out how dangerous flammable materials were stored close to the city.

Local reports and photos and videos delivered to the SNS show the city of Beirut's city center devastated in seconds.

Because of the shock waves and heat waves, the burned down car was overturned, and even the collapsed buildings were uncountable.

Local media reported that the ultra-strong shock wave shattered the glass windows of a building 10 miles away.

The residence of Lebanese President Michelle Aun and former Prime Minister Saad Hariri is also damaged, according to CNN.

An eyewitness told Reuters, "Fireballs and smoke rose above Beirut's sky, people screamed and ran out of blood."

A video of a dead body covered with blood on roads and vacant land near the port was also posted on social media.

The number of fatalities and injuries announced by the Lebanese government continues to rise.

When I watched a video taken inside a car, this car, which was running far away from the scene, exploded, and after about a second, the rear window was broken and the room mirror fell off.

The Jordan Earthquake Observatory estimated that the explosion was equivalent to an earthquake of magnitude 4.5.

Jan Choeriri, who lives near the Port of Beirut, wrote on his Facebook page, "It was like Apocalypse. I barely saved my life, but the life and death of others is now unknown. Everywhere is bloody."


CNN says local hospitals are filled with injuries and emergency rooms.

Beirut's main hospital,'Hotel Dew', is treating over 500 injured and unable to accommodate additional patients, according to local LBCI broadcasts.

St. George's Hospital in downtown Beirut suffered direct damage, cut electricity and healed wounded people in the parking lot, Alaviya said.

Some patients have been reported to have been struck by glass fragments, broken limbs, and others have become unconscious.

In social media, hashtags that request blood donation have spread rapidly.

Georges Ketane, head of the Red Crescent Society (corresponding to the Red Cross), says the wounded are being taken to hospitals outside the capital.

He explained that it is difficult to determine the exact number of injured people because many people are still trapped in an explosion-damaged home.

In addition to the direct damage of the explosion, toxic gases are spreading and reports that children and the elderly must escape Beirut.

Mayor Beirut cried when he said in a live interview with the Sky News Arabian channel, "It was like an explosion in Hiroshima (the atomic bomb was dropped). I don't know how to recover it."

(SBS New Media Department/Photo = Yonhap News)

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