He wanted to film scenes of the birth of his wife, so he was surprised by the massive explosion that struck the port of Beirut, leaving more than 150 people dead, thousands of wounded, massive destruction in the Lebanese capital and billions of dollars in losses.
The clip showed footage Edmund Khneisser photographed for his wife Emmanuel as she entered the maternity room and the medical team, and the Beirut Port explosion occurred suddenly while photographing the clip.
Edmund - the BBC - tells how the nurses and doctors were attending the operating room for childbirth and it was only seconds until the explosion broke out and everything in the room crashed.
He continued that the ceiling of the room had fallen and he was searching for his wife, and he was afraid that she or the fetus would be harmed.
After the dust cleared, he found his wife covered in glass and pulled the bed out of the room and assisted the doctors and nurses, after which the birth took place - without medication - to give Edmund a baby whom he called George Sliema Moaf.
Dash generated and the explosion became đ± # Beirut_pic.twitter.com/YYs9pM5C3o
- Habiba Al-Abdullah (@habibaalabdulla) August 5, 2020
Beirut explosion: birth during the explosion
Emanuel was preparing to give birth at St. George's Hospital in Beirut when the explosion shook the capital of Lebanon, so how did the birth process go? pic.twitter.com/4Os0wG2l7R
- BBC News Arabic (@BBCArabic) August 6, 2020