The head of the port of Beirut said that there was no pyrotechnics warehouse near the emergency site

2020-08-05T15:49:37.300Z

The head of the Beirut port, Hasan Koretem, said that there was no pyrotechnics near the exploded hangar."There is no pyrotechnics warehouse there," RIA Novosti quotes Koretem's interview to the Lebanese OTV channel. According to him, saltpeter was stored in the port in accordance with a court decision. He also clarified that the port authorities did not know that saltpeter was so dangerous. Earlier, Russian Ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Zasypkin said that the explosion in the port of Beirut occ...