"Representatives of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense, as the host country, have officially announced that they no longer expect to find living people under the rubble," a spokesman for the TASS Ministry of Emergency Situations was quoted as saying.
According to him, search and rescue operations have been completed in the city, but work at the site of the emergency continues.
During the work in Beirut, Russian rescuers removed the bodies of six victims from the rubble.
On August 4, a powerful explosion occurred in the port area in the capital of Lebanon. More than 150 people died, about 5 thousand were injured.
Alexey Dudarev, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Russian Union of Rescuers, told Nation News that there is a lot of work to be done to find the victims.