Beirut's rubble-scattering room echoes on a piano performance video of an elderly woman August 7 at 10:16
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The explosion of a fire in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, destroyed the room in which it lived and scattered debris, while an elderly woman played a "light of firefly" at a piano in the corner of the room. It is echoing above.
Mr. May Abood Melchi (79) is playing the piano while the room where he lived was destroyed and the glass scattered.
At the time of the explosion, Melki was out with his husband and was injured.
The next day, when Melki returned home, he said that he had a big shock in the room where he had lived for 60 years due to the impact of the explosion, which caused holes in the wall, furniture to lie down, and debris scattered on the floor. That is.
However, because the piano given by his father in honor of the marriage was safe, Melki immediately sat down in front of the piano, and while the volunteers were cleaning up the house, Scottish folk song "Firefly light" I started playing quietly.
When a grandson in the United States posted a video of the performance on SNS, a series of comments praising him as "representing the indomitable spirit of the people of Lebanon" were shared, and they received a great response, such as being shared more than 20,000 times. calling.
“My grandmothers have survived a civil war in which bullets fly around, but they have never experienced a blast like this one.” He seems to have tried to have peace."