• Crisis: explosions in Beirut: a tragedy that plunges Lebanon into ruin

Beirut crosses its fingers for a small miracle, on the eve of a month since the explosions that caused almost 200 deaths and more than 6,000 injured.

Search teams on Thursday detected

signs of life under the rubble of a building

.

A rescue dog from a team of Chilean and Lebanese specialists stopped and began to search intensively in a collapsed building in the Gemayze district, in the Mar Mikhael neighborhood, one of the areas most affected by the shock wave.

The team has detected heartbeats and breathing and thermal scans have captured signs of life under the rubble of the place, which would reveal the existence of one or two people alive under the ruins, according to

the governor of Beirut, Marwan. Abbou

d, to the agency France-Presse.

Immediately, the place has been filled with journalists and onlookers, who were evacuated by Civil Defense units, which are carefully preparing for a possible rescue, reports the newspaper 'An Nahar'.

"We hope someone comes out alive, Abboud wished. Michel al-Murr, a member of the Beirut Fire Brigade, has also confirmed the detection of

pulsations" of a person "

, to the agency France-Presse. According to his calculations, it would be two meters under the rubble Another member of the rescue teams has assured local media that the scanners have captured "19 breaths per minute."

On August 4, two simultaneous explosions in the port of Beirut caused a human tragedy and devastated half of the Lebanese capital.

The detonations were caused by the combustion of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate that had been stored in a port warehouse for six years without any control or security.

The causes of the explosion are still unknown

.

The announcement that there may be a survivor has given hope to families who are still searching for the bodies of their missing relatives, despite the fact that four weeks have passed.

According to the Lebanese Army,

seven people are still missing

.

"Thirty days later, there is an opportunity for the survivors, but a need for prayer," says the newspaper 'An Nahar'.

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