China News Service, August 5 According to foreign media reports, on the 4th local time, a violent explosion occurred in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, causing thousands of deaths and injuries. An eyewitness interviewed by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) stated that when the explosion occurred, he “lost his hearing for a few seconds” and then “glass fell from all over the building”.
Hadi Nasrallah said in an interview that he saw the fire, but did not know that there would be an explosion. Suddenly, he could not hear. He stated that he "lost his hearing for a few seconds" and knew that "something went wrong."
Subsequently, the glass of the cars, shops, and buildings next to him were all broken. “Glass fell from all over the building.” From the phone calls of other people a few kilometers away, he knew that Beirut was experiencing the same thing.
He said that usually when an explosion occurs, only one area will experience these things, but this time Beirut as a whole felt the power of the explosion.